Originally Posted by
NuGuy
Funny. Pre-COVID, during the “pilot shortage”, I watched a few older GA guys try to make a run at the airline gig. They’d all made their nut lawyering, selling, trading or whatever, had a couple thousand hours in their Cherokee or Baron. Kids were out of the house and the wife was tired of their retirement plan.
They all quit after a few months at the regionals. Turns out it wasn’t what they expected. Some didn’t make it through training. These were guys who had some awareness of flying, but not the ancillary BS that makes up 95% of the job. Apparently a professional dude that has spent some time in the world doesn’t have a lot of tolerance with getting jerked around by the high-school graduate working in scheduling.
Ironically, I saw this happen in the opposite direction multiple times during the dark decade. RJ guys who got sick of the BS, left the regionals & got a real job only to come back after a few years. Couldn’t handle the daily commute in traffic, the office drudgery, bringing work home at night.
At the end of the day, we’re all just shoveling sh**. Your stack isn’t necessarily any higher than anyone else’s, but we often condition ourselves to do it a certain way.