Originally Posted by
asims33
Im personally really sick of reading this crap day in and day out... Its the same stuff over and over. You high time Airline pilots are always looking down your nose at those "Wet-ATP-Kid-Wonders" that make it to the right seat....
The airline must have saw some skill in that kid or he wouldnt have been there. If you dont like the industry then leave... If you had to have more hours to be hired than the current market that sucks sorry but i dont wanna hear you complain. I am only 20 years old, ive jumped hurdles and moved mountains to finish my flight training and ill be dammed if i let some bitter old capitain sit here and disrespect me and other young pilots by saying we havent payed our dues...Hell just finishing training is almost impossible nowadays, flight schools trying to rip you off, greedy examiners, bad weather, terrible economy, high fuel prices, bad hiring market, and to beat it all the more experiance pilots like some of you are so bitter you wont even look in the direction of a student pilot or a new pilot let alone help them or give them advice. You should be happy that we dont have to live off food stamps while waiting for a job....Im really sorry if you did, but now you are living your dream you should be stoked. Sounds to me like you are a bit immature to say stuff like that. Im sitting in a marketing office at an insurance company going insane behind a desk to pay my bills waiting for my chance to fly for an airline or cargo company, i have no clue what "dues" you are talking about but that is not in the job requirements sir you need to grow up.
As far as the minimums id say they are gonna be high to start off with just like everyone else. But as ive already learned newer pilots just need to hang in there our time will come.
The problem is your lack of being humble. You might try that and I bet you'll get alot less gruff from the senior guys. The LAST thing they need or want to hear is some newly minted FO telling him like it is. Just by your constant defensive reposts it seems you need a major dose of humility. As one poster stated, you have thousands of guys at the bottom of the cliff SCREAMING at you and all the others not to jump and you'll go ahead, jump, and on the way down be telling them how wrong they are.
You may not be a 20 year old, you may have degrees and some life experience, but you have ALOT to learn about what goes on in 121, what the people here go through day in and day out and why they may be a bit sick of being lectured by those that have never worked in a 121 environment.