"Working at LCC, I can see where your resentment and bitterness comes form."
Deadhead, Skyhigh failed to correct you in his follow on post, so I feel the need to bring it up. That he let you remain misinformed is typical, and why he should hold no credibility here. Posting in a manner to misinform is par for the course for Skyhigh. If you follow his stuff it becomes obvious...
"A lot of what I write here is intented as humor and most do not get it." Skyhigh 4/08/09
"I am not trying to criticize anyone. Just trying to get people to think about a few things." Skyhigh 12/26/08
"It takes more of a sacrifice to become professionally licensed to cut hair than it does to become an airline pilot." Skyhigh 3/3/09
I could go on....
Skyhigh worked for Horizon Air as an F/O and went to National Airlines as a 757 F/O.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Airlines_(N7)
They were a small, non-union, start up out of LAS flying 757's. Had nothing to do with US Airways or America West.
Skyhigh walked away from the career, for his own good reasons, and his goal here is to bash the career to rationalize his decision to walk away. He attempts to bring the rest of us down to his level of misery as a way to make himself feel like he made the right choice. It's a silly thing to do cause his "right choice" is a moving target. It was right for him and more power to him for making it. However, what is rarely mentioned at these boards, is there are many, many, happy pilots doing a job they knew they were getting into and doing a job they think is worthy, all things considered. It worked out darn well for me.
And I could go on, and on, but I'll spare Sky the agony....