Originally Posted by
SkyHigh
No matter what you do in life it is stressful and rife with risk. Why not do something worth having? Most airline pilots will tell you that you will be furloughed, laid off or shut down at least three times over a career. If a business fails everyone usually ends up broke anyway. To me employees take the greatest risk of all. They take the fall with their employers but give up the opportunity to take the profits as an employee if the business succeeds.
If you have the ability to climb the ladder at SW and to pay your way through flight school then you also have the ability to start a business. It is absurd to have to consider working several jobs to simply keep a flying dream alive. It isn't a job anymore but a hobby.
It all takes the same amount of work and sacrifice. Why take aim at someday hopefully reaching adequate when you have the potential to become so much more?
In the current world the terms "Airline" and "Secure" don't belong in the same sentence.
SkyHigh
Everyone measures stress differently and flying is not stressful! At least to me.
This is how you feel then fine, but I measure my life a bit different and so do many others. There are two parts to life, personal and professional. If you're not happy in one then it will undoubtedly role over into the other. I love my job and I love my family so I consider myself a very luck man.
As far as "Most airline pilots will tell you that you will be furloughed, laid off or shut down at least three times over a career," we'll see. I'm in this for the long haul as is many other pilots. I don't do this for the money and I understand that I'll never get rich while flying, but I'm fine with that. I LOVE my job and I will always love my career.