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).
and all 121 “dues paying people” missed out on living in a tent or mold filled cube in Iraq/Afgnaistan/undisclosed location, breathing in carcinogens from a burn pit, while eating soupy food over rice, and getting shot at.
Everybody pays their dues, just in a different way sometime.