First off let me say YES it was a good decision to leave Pinnacle. When you are constantly thinking of ways not to go to work and when you are there you are not happy and want to walk off the flight it is time to leave. I don't know about you but I don't want my family flying on a flight with a somewhat disgruntle pilot in the cockpit.

Flying Ninja, I have already been down the corporate route and it is not a pretty one either. I flew the G4 and G5 aswell as the Citation X (Typed in all three.)for a company in ATL out of PDK, until their planes were taken away for not paying the bills... Corporate Flying is fun because you get to see much more desirable destinations than your regional counterpart IE Aspen, Frankfurt and so on but, you have no life because your pilot group is so small they run you life.

As for airlines not making money I am well aware of the economic structure of these companies especially Northwest. When a company sells all of its assets then leases its old property back from the leasing company things tend to only go downhill from there.

Space Monkey, I am fully aware of the the way Pinnacle gets paid. That is why you will see a flight delayed for 6 hours with ****ed off PAX, instead of rebooking them on another flight just so Pinnacle will get paid for that one flight segment.

Tinpusher007, I could have held the Left seat from my initial class but if you must know I do have my own successful business(NOT run like an airline) and quality of life is very important to me. Even now people close to my senoirity are barely holding 12 days off a month, and then getting extended into their days off. So I chose not to pursue that ave. I would have quit regardless. Though Pinnacle is just not a company that I was proud to work for but, having a seperate income made it that much easier.

FlyerNY, I can see that you understand. I am glad that someone does and that you are not looking for extenuating circumstances which there wasn't
My quitting very well planned out so that I would not get screwed out of anything owed. I took my vacation in January to use that time and then slowly over the 6 month time period use my sick bank. After all that on the day I quit I called My wealth manager at UBS and asked hom to roll over my 401K so they would not have a chance to get me by the sack.

Schone, There is nothing to sugar coat. If you like your life run by people who make $8hr. you will love this job. Don't get me wrong. I still love to fly but I don't think that doing it for a living is for me anymore...

I hope that this answered some questions