Originally Posted by
Mea25000
NewGuy? My heart breaks for you. Is that what you want to hear. Your life is so terrible, your job the worst. You will only make 90k, 140k, 155K, 165k over the next 4 years with another 15.5 going into your 401k. And that is a worst case (no new contract), with any luck (a healthy growing company), year 5 you will make at least 250k. I bet you are going to be ok. Yes, things could be better and they will if we all do our jobs.
The union knows what we want. They can only get this for you if this company is knocking it out of the park!
Hope I haven’t offended you. But you’re really proving my point. There are two kinds of pilots at AS. Pre and post housing crisis. You pretty much solidly landed in the pre category with your latest post. But you seem like you’re being genuinely sincere so I’ll try and do the same.
You need to understand that when you were an FO 130$ an hour was a lot of money. But now it’s not. I know it sounds insane and as someone who grew up on the West Coast it sounds crazy to me as well.
Unless I move to Tacoma/Olympia or Bellingham I’m not going to be considered financially qualified by a lending institution to purchase a home as a single income, single person.
What we really need is a base in an affordable location. Since I’m not alone in finding housing in our 4 bases incredibly expensive I would likely be too junior to get in depending on the size of the base.
Until then I’m planning on a 8-10 year upgrade. Since that’s about what the math says at the 2-3% growth plan. Which is fine. But unless there is a dramatic change in housing costs that don’t get 200 FOs furloughed. I’ll likely be renting for life. Since I’m not big on driving in heavy traffic for 1-2 hrs at the start and end of nearly all of our trips.
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk