Originally Posted by
USMCFLYR
Not that I expect that you will - nor do I say you need to - but if you were to search my posting history you would see that I never disagreed with you on that fact and have said the EXACT same thing over and over. What I disagree - or better yet disapprove - of is the WAY that you present the information. I posted one time giving my opinion that you both spoke negatively about the profession like the political or religious extremists......the fact that you can't say ANYTHING good about the profession - one that you both profess to love so much (I believe Sky even responded that he had nothing good to say). I asked for a balanced approach and usually congratulate Sky when he actually posts something along those lines and not something calling professional pilots deragatory names and saying that they don't take care of their families.
I have said from day one on this forum that my biggest mistake and worry is that there isn't anything else that I want to do other than fly professionally when I retire. With the industry in the turmoil it is in right now I basically worry about it everyday.
USMCFLYR
Well, I can say some good things about the profession, just nothing good about the financial viability of it, as it pertains to providing for my family and me. I am VERY proud of the job I did for 13 total years at 2 regionals. Met some of the best people in the world, whom I still to this day admire and am proud to call friends. Never failed to get that handshake and pat on the back for a job well done at the end of the month, (except for the 2 or 3 times I got stuck with a richard cranium-you know every airline has one or three.)
Flying soldiers home from the gulf war, 1 and 2, who had not seen their child born. I could go on and on.
But in the end, I just couldn't afford it. And now I'm much better off.
Just my story.