Flaps9,

I completely agree with you. I enjoy flying, love my job, and we're financially definitely not hurting by any means even if both of us loose our jobs.

The point is that something went wrong in this industry. I'm not sure who's fault it is, airlines, unions or we as pilots. Probably a combination.

My initial post was intended to show that "simple" workers like the forklift driver makes more money than we do, definitely to start off with, and maybe even over his entire career span as well. And that is very sad.

I will definitely be hanging in there. There is NO WAY I will do something else but fly, which makes me most likely part of the problem if you look at the larger picture.