Originally Posted by
sanicom3205
My thoughts exactly. This whole experience with a looming furlough has changed the way I think. I’m in a good position to weather this, but I can’t imagine having kids and a mortgage, college payments etc. I feel for these guys. I come from an airline family and I understand many guys have been through the ringer, but to go through any type of hardship and come away thinking that it’s some type of right of passage and to feel no sympathy is pathetic.
I think the new cadre will be better human beings.
Yeah this. I don’t have any kids and the wife makes good money. That said I have plenty of friends Here that are new moms and dads and they are the only income earner. I don’t want to see the stress this will cause their families.