Originally Posted by
Giggity
This needs to go to every major U.S. periodical pronto!! Well done. Thank you for eloquently summarizing the ills of the airline profession. You should make a brochure and put this at every Riddle, UND, flight school, etc.
A quick add note for the military section: "As a military pilot, be ready to spend MANY MANY hours doing menial non-flying queep."
The "non-flying queep" as you put it is the smart thing to do. Gaining additional leadership abilities and skill sets diversifies your ability to go further in a career and expand your horizons. We need to be diversified in our skills just like your stock portfolio needs to be diversified, thus enabling us to weather the storm of economic downturns. FWIW, most of my additional duties were far from menial.