Originally Posted by
jayray2
If you are coming to work for a Regional you are selling your soul to the devil. You might not think so now but you will soon enough realize the truth. You will be working the first year on reserve with 11 days off, in one of the most expensive cities in the world making just over $20,000 a year. You will have to commute to work the day before four times a month, two to three times a month you will not be able to get home on the last day of your reserve stretch and one to two times a month you will get screwed with integration and only get one day off which makes it impossible to go home. That means there are some months when it is possible that you will only get two full days at home, yeah, TWO full days. Just when you think you have it good and build a little seniority, living in your base of choice with decent time off, the industry will take a 180. Then you will get displaced, be forced to commute half way across the country, face imminent furlough and watch upgrades go from months to years and you are back to square one. How is there any other way to look at it other than selling your soul?
Then quit if you're so unhappy. The world needs plenty of bartenders...
What you're saying isn't NEWS to anybody, man. That's the way it goes for a lot of people. At this point in my life, with the contract and pay scale, I don't see it as "selling my soul." There are a lot worse places to be right now. Give me a couple of years and that opinion might change. Bottom line, no one forces you to do this job. If you get to the point where you deem it no longer personally acceptable, then quit and go sell insurance or something. Complaining about it and being pessimistic doesn't help anybody's case. No one likes flying with that guy who won't shut up about how awful the job is.