Originally Posted by
Glenn Would
Flyboy, I sincerely mean no disrespect to you when I say this, but are you as exhausted firing out posts obsessing/complaining about things you can’t control as I am reading them?? Seriously, chill the f out. Obsessing about things in this industry you have no control over will do absolutely nothing to help you and will drive you to insanity. Don’t put yourself through that.
What you should do is analyze what your goals are, pick a regional that will give you the best means to get there (maximize your QOL by living in/within driving distance from base if that’s important to you, or fly your butt off in the right seat/left seat if building 121 TPIC quickly is important to you), focus on learning the operation and airplane you’re flying until it’s instinctive, and get through probation. The path to a legacy is a marathon, not a sprint. It takes a few years. And since age is a factor for you, the LCC’s offer similar pay, benefits and QOL as the legacies. And they don’t even necessarily require TPIC to get hired.
Thanks Glenn. I'm not obsessing over it, but it concerns me that something so trivial as "how much volunteer work I've done" can torpedo my chances at a major.
I guess I'm just longing for the days when your flying credentials and merit got you a job at at a major, and not like now where it's largely based on your sex, race and "extracurricular activities". I believe in merit based hiring, and not some HR person's perception of me based upon their subjective opinion.
I guess this goes back to my days as an FE flying with a female FO who was bragging about her upcoming interview with the old United, and how she was pretty much guaranteed the job by HR. We had CA's who were infinitely more qualified than her that couldn't even get a return email from them, much less an interview. And I'm not blaming her, she was taking full advantage of a broken system. As you can see, I'm not a big fan of HR depatments.