Originally Posted by
ChecklistMonkey
I would have loved to been on property then so I could take a 42% paycut and STILL be making 6 figures. Instead, we are all making $20k a year with bad benefits and minimal retirement working all but 10 days a month.
Moral of the story: yes, you had to make some sacrifices. But don't stand up on your soap box and preach to people who fought poverty wages for an additional 7-10 years that you all had it so rough or that you did what you did so I can reap the benefits now. You did it for you.
You need to back down a bit. Many of us who were on the property at that time were forced into a 100% pay cut. Many of us were forced into low paying entry level jobs to try and make ends meet.
As a new hire I was an engineer on the 727. I was in that seat for two years until I was furloughed. Engineer time doesn’t count for anything really. I found that out going to recruiting events to try and find another flying job. Guess what? I was told I wasn’t competitive because of my lack of recency. Guess who was competitive?......yep, the regional guys who were flying their butts off as the majors shrank.
This isn’t a poor me story in any way. But to use your words, you need to get off your soap box and quit preaching about how bad you had it. A lot of you regional guys had it better than a lot of us major guys at that time.