Originally Posted by
Knobcrk1
Don’t worry all will be forgiven after you get on at Fedex you’ll be rolling in dough taking the family to the French Riviera on a yacht lighting up cigarettes with 100 dollar bills. All because you took the first avail class before the next crisis hit......
I deferred a class date for two weeks (wife wanted to take a planned vacation). They were running classes larger than 50 pilots, figured it wouldn't matter much.
Ended up in the same very small base with several of my classmates (senior by lottery) for about a decade, they upgraded and I missed it. When I did upgrade I was stuck working weekends and holidays. If I had taken the first class I would have upgraded 4-5 years sooner and bid 30-40% instead of 60-70%. In addition to CA QOL that would presumably got me out of the regionals about five years sooner. I did enjoy good QOL as an FO before upgrade, but I'd recommend grabbing seniority when you can and then you get to choose what to do with it.