Originally Posted by
Noisecanceller
Tell me you didn’t spend a decade at a regional without telling me.
How many times can you do a layover before you’ve seen it? Twice? Five times? Now what for the rest of your career? And if you think those senior widebody pilots are bidding it for the layovers I’d say you’re mistaken. Some domiciles might only have a couple destinations on a given fleet so you just end up doing the same thing over and over again.
So while you’re enjoying that new restaurant in Billings in January, the dishwasher or washing machine just broke at home. Sure would be nice to be home and handle that for your lady. Don’t worry you’ll be able to post to your Instagram about that sweet poutine you got in Edmonton. F that! I’m never going back to that without a fight.
You are kidding, right? I spent my whole career specifically bidding for cities I wanted to layover in. I had the chance to do some pretty cool things on my overnights, like skiing in the Alps and surfing in Hawaii, biking to a distillery in Scotland and mountain biking along the river in YEG. Concerts, running in cool places, eating great food. That's what I enjoyed. He'll, I'm still doing that in my retirement gig, although I have less control over where I go.
I had more time with my kids than most fathers who were ¨home every night¨. I look at my son, who is a lawyer and leaves the house at 7 am and doesn't get home until 8PM. If your wife can't handle minor **** while you are gone then it s going to be an issue even if you are gone all day. Good thing you are not military and are deployed for 9 months (Or longer).
Great thing about this profession is you can choose how much or how little you fly. The bigger the airline (or other operation) you fly for, the more choices you have.