Originally Posted by
dashtrash300
The QOL reasoning is BS...people don't grow up hoping that one day they can fly a CRJ or a Dash 8 for their career. Good luck building a retirement or helping pay for your kid's college on $90K a year. I want to go to the majors and I want to retire and not be forced to work at home depot just because I was "comfortable" making $90K a year and not ever having to go through being an FO again.
Oh please!
Of course no one grew up saying they wanted to fly an RJ for $90 an hour! Even when I took this job, my plan was to spend a couple of years and move on to mainline.
But then a little thing called 9/11 happened. That was followed by a recession, a couple of wars, the era of airline bankruptcies, another recession, and here we are, 10 years older! Throw a growing family into that mix, and voila, plans change.
Btw, I don't need a part time job. If you can't live comfortably on $85,000 a year, then you need to examine your expenses. Most of the people where I live make $35-$45K and they're perfectly happy.