I want to be an airline pilot. That’s why I’m here. I’d also happily take a $10,000 per year pay cut to guarantee I don’t have to stay longer than 4 years. Those 2 things don’t really have anything to do with each other except for when the Union decides to keep out new hires to get a raise.

Either way if my dream of making it to a real airline doesn’t look like it’s going to work out I’ll cut tail and run. There is no way I will become a regional lifer. It makes zero sense to try to make it all the way to retirement as a bottom feeder of the most unstable industry of all time.