Originally Posted by
BoilerUP
Aspiring professional pilots coming up in flight schools in 2010 don't have any excuses to claim they don't know about the pay and lifestyle of corporate or charter or regional or legacy airline pilots, let alone the pitfalls of scabbing, or PFT, or the whole "spikey-haired-ipod-having-backpack-wearing-RJ FO" stereotype.
Well said... I frankly worry about the caliber and judgement of a pilot entering the profession today with all that is known about this rotting profession. The mystery was intact when I came in back in '94, but fully exposed by 2000... and now 10 years later it's become the topic of media story after story. You can't say you didn't expect your career to suck this bad anymore.
In my case, I just wish I wasn't 40 so I could go back and get a degree in engineering or science and do something else with my professional life!