Originally Posted by rytheflyguy

I was miserable in other jobs, but recently the BS we put up with now with complaining passengers, crew scheduling, all the time away from family, combined with the decrease in compensation....I probably wouldn't make the jump now contemplating the future.

It's just my wife and I now and she travels quite a bit for work herself. I'm a very senior FO (turned down last upgrade for QOL issues for a few more months), so my lifestyle is great right now as I usually work Monday-Wed/Thurs, and she's often gone then as well. But there have been times I needed to be with her and couldn't get there right away.

And then throw kids into the mix....late Saturday night our phone rang from one of the captain's wives. She'd met my wife 2-3 times, and their youngest needed to go to the hospital to be admitted, husband was in Canada with no way home for at least 15 hours, and with no family around, they needed someone to watch their 5 year old. We were happy to help, but had it been my (hypothetical) daughter in the hospital, it would have been very hard for me to be a thousand miles away.