Originally Posted by
nicholasblonde
1......I'm optimistic about the under-30s generation. Spoiled generations like ours typically get the most upset and act out the most when you try to take our stuff away.
2.....I honestly feel like it's the mid-30s to 40s aged guys that are rolling over and dying about everything-- they're the ones who are the most defeatist.
3.....One common thread among the baby boomer old schoolers and us young folks is that we were both raised in post-war economic booms (WWII and the Cold War)...we were raised in eras of great technological advancement and progress, and believe that anything is possible as long as you work hard enough or study hard enough, or both....
4.....Even the guys who went to Jet U seem to be more willing to do something about the industry than the pessimistic "I had my ATP when I got hired and I am lucky to have my job" generation.
5.....Who will fight more--the generation of entitlement who has never heard the words "no," or the generation who "earned it" but considers themselves "lucky to be here?"
Rant on, pessimist Gen Xers!!!
I'll bite blondie
1....sounds like a 2 year old in a grocery store throwing a tantrum when his mom won't buy him gummy bears.
2. I'm 35 and i'll be the first to STFD. And most of my 30 + friends are the same. We have learned there are ways to get things we want besides whining on an anon internet board or *****ing in the cockpit to your FO/CA. Join the union, etc. there are other ways to focus your energy. In general, I've found that guys who whine and b*tch on message boards or in the cocoon of the cockpit are the guys least willing to join/help out the union or fellow pilots. US "X'ers" are silent but deadly, not just rolling over. Who wins the bar fight....the guy who makes alot of noise and gets his arse kicked or the guy who uses mind control/psychology and goes home with the bully's girl? See FNFAL's post for ways to help our cause without *****ing and whining all about it. I have seen 2 of our most vocal STFD'ers pick up open time and fly while sick. And answer their phone in the hopes of that 125% jr man call. Even had one just a few days ago help the understaffed ramp unload/load bags at the outstation so HE could try to get us out ON TIME. and he was early 20's.
3. work hard or study hard or buy your way into a job.
4. Jet U etc....I can buy my way into another job if we STFD.
Those with ATP already.....it took us alot of hard work to get this job, and it will take an equal amount of hard work to get another job if we STFD. Doing something about the industry.....it can be said the program guys/low time gen Y'ers are the ones who changed the industry for the worse, and they should be the ones that should be trying to change it for the better. It's not my fault they spent tens of thousands to chase quick PIC time and got stuck in a rut.
5. I know I always fight harder for something that I earned, rather than something that I felt I was entitled to and didn't hear the words no for.
disclaimer.....all these views arent necessarily the way I personally feel and isn't meant to bash low timers/program guys, just giving the poster possible answers to the questions he posed.