Originally Posted by FoxHunter

Heck, I was a furloughed F/O at Seaboard and the Chief Pilot said not to worry because some day I would be a Captain earning close to $100,000 a year. He was wrong because not many years later I was a F/O earning more than $100,000 a year. Three years later I was a 727 Captain earning $62,500 a year for 15 nights a month, 4 legs a night.