Friend
My friends goal is to get out of aviation entirely. He as worked several part 135 jobs in Alaska but knows how empty your life becomes while living in a shack in St. Marys Alaska.
His options are to work at Safeway as a bag boy or make a sacricife and attempt a regional airlines job. My point to him is that at least the airline job will offer good medical and travel benefits.
Sadly I think he will choose the Safeway option.
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