Originally Posted by
mathteacher
Like I said above, I'm moving to a different career path and have to quit UAL to do so. In normal pay standards (non-airline professional) the school is really taking care of me by offering me the tenure track so I'm thinking probably 15 years teaching in exchange for 9 years at UAL, maybe. The school has a pension, UAL has whatever we can make of it. Given my luck the age 67 thing will kick in like the age 65 thing did during the last wave of furloughs...not that I'm suggesting that, but it would be my luck. So it is time...Everybody fly safe, been an honor to work here for the last 5 years. Have a Longboard at Duke's in Lihue if the chance ever arises in the future.
Mathteacher...hats off to you. March to your own drummer, as the only music that counts is what you hear.
A personal note. You mentioned James Stockdale in one of your first posts. About 25 years ago, give or take, I stumbled on a book by him, “Thoughts of a Philosophical Pilot”...or something like that. Besides making me an admirer of him, it was a catalyst for me to look at the subject of Philosophy in a manner I had not before. Maybe it was a mid-life crisis, har, but in a few years of personal reading and self directed study of the subject my worldview had profoundly shifted, and continues to evolve. Due to that shift, begun by Admiral Stockdale, I think I have a small bit of understanding regarding your decision.
Enjoy life.