Originally Posted by e6bpilot

Same here. I sat watching ground ops in two different stations completely screw up two highly padded turns today due to nothing but straight buffoonery. I just sat munching my pistachios and throwing the shells on the cockpit floor like a good AM flyer. This place makes money despite itself. 5 and 20 are all that matter to me and I want those two days to be as amazing as possible for the rest of my career. The rest is noise.
This job is a lot of long, frustrating days and repetition. I try to manage that by giving the least amount of fu*ks as possible and taking as much time off as my sick bank and vacation weeks will allow to recharge my batteries. My sick bank will never get me a management job and I am perfectly ok with that.
I have been flying with a lot of new guys and their unbridled SkyWest optimism is actually like chicken soup for the grumpy captain soul. I get a laugh out of some of it, but it's a good balance to the negativity that literally lurks around every corner here.