If you are happy doing that job then good for you. I have a lot of friends who hired on with you and they are screaming and clawing at the walls to get out of there. Some people seem to like that job and that is great. Congradulations, you have reached your goal. I was 30 when I got hired there and was starting a family. It was obvious that there was no way I could do that on Horizon wages. Good companies don't have to use training contracts to keep their employees.

The needs and expectations of my generation are very diffrent from you guys. I'll bet that you are in your late 20's or early 30's. You have time to kill. By the time you reach 40 that pay check will seem a little slim and the dash a little cramped. Had I been hired in my lower 20's I am sure I would have a diffrent outlook. All the same, few people ever leave Horizon to go to the majors compared to other regionals. Almost everyone I have ever known who hired on there has never left. I took a chance leaving Horizon and lost. I do miss flying, but not for Horizon.

When I first started flying regionals didn't exsist. Horizon was a small commuter and the only job worth having was at the majors. I still think that way. Your generation looks to the regionals as a lifetime career. Good for you, someone has to do it. I have known pilots who left Horizon to be firefighters, work construction and sewer pump trucks drivers. My biggest gripe is that the pay is very much below what the general population earns, and in the end most of us have to make a living.

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