Originally Posted by
ARL120384
If all pilots made career altering decisions based on one failed merger and one invester call over a 40 yeaer career, we'd all be losing seniority on a quarterly basis. Sometimes you just have to buckle up and take the ride. In hindsight over a career, this won't even be a blip.
It's never just that one earnings call, or that one failed merger, but a collection of failures. Eventually, one more bad call is enough to break the camels back. I keep living by my old school aviation advice of "Get hired where you can, when you can, as soon as you can and keep your number", but maybe that advice is dated and the current era of airline hiring means you can jump ship and still land solidly on your feet.