Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Geez, easy there.
Read it again... I said you have to PAY them to put up with the hassles. Nothing bad about that in my mind, as it should be.
In previous generations the adventure aspect was worth something, I think kids who grew up with phones and internet are more blase about that.
For you there's no more adventure flying than bailing hay, so do whichever pays best.
I don't regret any of my adventures, but it does distract one from making money.
I'm sorry but the tone of that comment dovetails so well with the ridiculous amount of bashing of certain generations that is ridiculous on here.
Of course flying offers adventures far greater than driving a tractor at 3 miles an hour. I just wasn't willing, and honestly I was mad at the world that all the time and effort I put into the ratings would net me $8000 the first year out of college while my buddies in other fields were getting company trucks and $55k the first year. I'm no martyr but everyone should stand up for this career, pay started to increase at the regionals because people started quitting the profession and stopped going into it all together.
The only reason we don't get paid more is so many people have well to do parents or are so enamoured with the love of flying or the adventure that they will work poverty wages to do it.