Originally Posted by johnso29

The secret is not a secret at all. It's common knowledge. Live well with in your means, so you have plenty of savings. It's called financial responsibility, and if more people in this country would have it then we wouldn't have gotten in our last recession to begin with. Don't buy a house you really can't afford.

As far as raising the retirement age due to med advances, I don't really give a rats rear end whether someone can hold a 1st class med past 60 or not. You want to keep flying, go get a charter gig. Point is THEY benefited off of those that were required to retire at 60, and know they are benefiting from NOT having to retire at 60. Many of those people have full pensions, yet still hang out in the highest paying WB seats (AA 777 CA, NWA 744 CA, etc) PREVENTING those junior to them from getting a shot at those earnings before they turn 60. THAT is SELFISH.
BTW, a career with UAW is about as steady as being an Airline Pilot. Just take a survey in DTW.