Originally Posted by
blizzue
You should bid captain when your seniority allows and you understand the quality of life trade offs.
100% agree!
Every job in the world has good things and bad things about it.
One of the best things about our job is that I know of no other one where you can make a salary well into 6 figures and when your company offers you a promotion you can say "no thanks." And then the next month they will offer you a promotion and you can say "no thanks." And then the next month they will offer you a promotion ........
In the rest of the world if you make the kind of salary we make you might be able to get away with that once (and that is doubtful). Here we don't even bat an eye at the idea (until we have unfilled Captain bids)