Originally Posted by
ReadOnly7
you also missed out on being a junior pilot that had to commute to reserve, work every weekend, get the garbage trips that nobody else wanted (pretty much every aspect of “paying your dues” in the 121 world).
I did not miss out on all that gloriousness, I even got to do lovely airport standby when I was at my regional. I never went on long term MLOA outside of deployments. A couple months of orders every few years was the extent of my MLOA.