This.

I can remember back in ‘99-‘01 when all the airlines were signing fat contracts and hiring left and right; it was all sunshine, unicorns, and everyone got a free puppy if they wanted one............then 9.11 happened, followed shortly by a recession. Something along those same lines will happen again and anyone who doesn’t think so is just whistling past the graveyard. I’d love to go somehwere else, but being the same age as you and about halfway up the seniority list, I’m hooked to this wagon for better or worse.

It’s a calculated gamble on my part, and a very personal decision, but I’d rather stay and fight than be back on the bottom and risk having to figure out how in the hell to find a crappy corporate job again, then get all of those bags in the back of a Citation.....at 50 years old.

So, for now, I will fly the contract, do my job, go home, and not be volunteering for any extracarricular duties with the company.