Originally Posted by
RStrawberry
i mean how can we not? Our career mobility, earnings, and QOL will be permanently impeded and diminished due to the hiring patterns of yesterday. I’d like to know just how much less one hired today can anticipate earning compared to a similar aged new hire of 2019 or 2022. Probably easily measured in millions. Kind of hard not to feel sour about that. What a huge missed opportunity..
Friend, talk to those of us from the 9/11 era, or 2008, or anytime between 1966 and the late 1990s. You’ve been lured in to a career under false pretenses if you believe deep down in your icky stuff anything you’re saying. I made $19k my first year as an RJ FO. Thank god it is better for people now; I’m not one of those people that thinks that those coming up behind me should have it as bad as we did. All things considered, this is a fantastic time to be starting a career as a pilot, regardless of how slow the progress may be at the highest level at this point. What you’re describing is still $200,000 a year job at a minimum, and it took a large cross-section of my peer group a decade or two to get to that point. That’s to put to find a point on it, but you’re in for some bigger disappointments ahead if history is any indicator.