Originally Posted by
Purpleanga
You can never go wrong in going to a bottom feeding airline. Unless it's Mesa, although they got theirs the last 5 years.
If I had taken the class date offer from Mesa instead of TSA, I would just be getting furloughed now instead of last July. Since Lakes is no longer hiring, I'd have no flying prospects and would be out on the street. So maybe it's good that I chose TSA, maybe not. At the same time, if Lakes didn't hire me, I would probably be in class for ATC and have a better outlook. It's all a roll of the dice and you can't predict how this stuff is going to go. I wish mostly all of you the best of luck, but I disagree that you should blame yourself for the way your career has gone...unless you've failed checkrides or busted regs or something.