Originally Posted by
STILL GROUNDED
So you work for Mesa and know exactly what you are talking about? How about the fact that you could be getting an airline job 10 days after your multi commercial check ride? But I suppose under those terms the pay should be the industrys highest. You should sleep on roses and have someone powder you sac every morning.
I still think everyone should have to work a real job (dig a hole, pave a road, tar a roof, sling 14' drywall all day) before getting any job flying airplanes, then you'll know just how hard and dispicable this really isn't regardless of which company you choose to fly for.
Notice how some of the responses too your post refer to only the ditch digger! Ditch digging is unskilled labor only if the entire ditch is dug by hand. Use a backhoe and you will quickly see that it takes much skill and training to operate one safely. The other professions you mentioned are skilled labor and their pay reflects that. In closing, I agree with your statement and would add that if pilots would stop acting like premadonna's we'd be better off.