I just love that so many jack holes think guys stuck at XJT 10 years all had our golden chance at CAL, and we either 1) refused and chose to stay at XJT or 2) Had some major malfunction and could not get hired. No. Not at all true. Some of us never did. Some of us got to go say hi to the CAL captain on our commutes home, and also got to say hi to the new hire FOs who had been our FOs at XJT a couple months prior. Fun stuff.

I tried to get over. Hard. Plenty of internal recs, no interview. I got caught in the "we're not taking any more XJT guys with 1,000+ PIC because they're taking our type rating and selling it over at SWA" hole.

Listen, I am done being bitter, but I am also done thinking I can do anything to "make the profession better." The profession, ALPA, mainline MECs, whatever, made a bunch of choices that ****ed over an entire generation of airline pilots. And they have offered nothing to ease the losses. So, screw them. That's the new plan. Take as much of their jobs and money as possible before the whole regional thing collapses in the next 5-10 years and I go sell tires or whatever. I tried. They didn't.