Originally Posted by
gringo
Way to miss the forest for the trees.
You’ll break $100k easy your second year and by year three, seeing you live in base and are willing to be flexible, you can easily be north of $150k.
I was also single income with kids. I ended up financing my first year mostly on credit. And that was on the old contract. I don’t think I made much more than $30k. In South Florida.
Yes it sucked, but long term it made sense.
That was 5 years ago. My income is now well north of $250k, double anything I would have dreamed of at my previous employer...
Your kids will survive For a year on Ramen and Mac n Cheese no problem. It’ll go by fast.
You have to laugh when you have an RJ CA on your plane tell you “I would come to Spirit, but it’s too much of a drop for me in pay”. Meanwhile he is making $72/hr as an RJ CA.
I financed my first year on savings. And was getting back to even by year 2 (old contract). Whether or not first year pay should be higher this contract is another topic. But you’re completely right that although first year will hurt, the payoff has been excellent.
Dare I say “in my day it was $38/hr”