I've been at express almost 11 years and life there has been good. It defiantly is not the same airline I signed up for back in 96, but then what airline is? It will be hard to give the QOL up but I got to see my kids grow up and now I feel like it time to move on. I've been going to as many interviews as I can just to get back into the game.
It's always better interviewing for a position when you have a job that you are happy with at the time. It allows you the leeway of saying, are you FN mad, thanks but no thanks not for me, the look on there face is priceless.
There are allot of half ass operations out there hiring right now and I applied to all of them and got quiet a few interviews, even though I had no intentions of going there, its great practice. So when the major's call or whoever, you’re interviewing skills get better each time and you fell more relaxed. You have nothing to lose, you can say pretty much anything with no fear, and see how it goes over. I would highly recommend it.
I even did the CAL interview again and turned them down again, but I did get to see some new material and that alone was worth it, they just are not for me, and as far as SW not for me either, I’m doing that now. I want to slow down not speed up.