I don't always agree with Trip's posts, but I commend his optimism. Reading some of the miserable posts on this site and others, you'd think we were all a couple of days from dumpster diving to stay alive. This is still a pretty good job, with very good pay. That post about boats, fly-in communities, private schools and the rest I've read before. I suspect it was merely copied and pasted from some other rant posted elsewhere. And it is complete horse hockey from the first word to the last. Any captain at DAL, and most FOs can do all that now. Doesn't take multiple GS. The "good ol' days" weren't always that, and sometimes we all tend to look back with filtered memories.

So Trip, keep up the positive vibes--just don't get into the realm of Pollyanna vibes where all is perfect and nothing needs to be improved. I like the late sci fi author Robert Heinlein's quote. “Don't ever become a pessimist; a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun--and neither can stop the march of events.”