Originally Posted by
Bigapplepilot
I agree with your assessment. However, isn’t it a little difficult to set the parking brake and never think about this job? Just in the last month, ‘take this opportunity to head online’ and do....Dependent Verification, Open Enrollment, Multi-Factor Authentication, IPad Swap (which meant pick up, do on my own time since 40 minutes wasn’t enough for IT to Swap it, then return it making sure I got to the airport early enough before a trip), QDLs, Medical, etc etc. Its amazing to me how much it seems we are required to do outside of, (and on our free unpaid time) you know, flying planes.
I agree 100% that it's easy to get caught up in all the company issues, if you let yourself. I used to have the company email on my iPhone, no more. Thankfully (hopefully?) the dependent verification was a once every 5+ years thing, and the medical there's no getting around that... but as far as everything else, I take care of it at work.
I realize pilots love to talk flying, and I love flying, but I find it's way better to just have fun and be a regular civilian when I drive out of the company lot.
Tex