Originally Posted by
FliFast
Alf,
I think the only time you can gauge how good your job is or was is when you receive your first retirement paycheck.
Payscales, work rules, and promised advancement based on attrition are a lot like a "flight plan" for your career. Don't allow inflexibility, false hopes, and poor planning to lull you into thinking that your career's "flight plan" will happen as scheduled and as planned. You will just be setting your self up for failure and disappointment.
Case in point, when I was hired in 2007 at UPS straight to ANC the hot rumors was we'd all be Capts in 5 years. After 4 1/2 years, I'm about 90 from the bottom with 100+ on furlough.
For some people, flying a Lear jet in their hometown is better than flying a 747 at UPS.
The key to knowing which job is the best---do things that allow you to make it to the finish line of retirement with the least amount of damage.
FF
Jesus brother...take a step back, take a few deep breaths and think.
Many, including me have had it far harder than you have (so far) in this business. I took it personally when I got furloughed over 20 years ago, and had I hung my future solely on that place I'd still be on furlough...for the second time like close friends, many of which either now hove comfortable corporate jobs, are at UPS or other carriers, or in the case of a close, yet gone friend like Doug Lampe who also lived the USAir "dream" are now dead partly as a result of IMO corporate manslaughter.
Yeah...up close it's easy for any of us to put our heads in our hands and whine...I've been there. But I chose to get a grip and move on...try it.
Damn man...you wear me out...you really do.