Originally Posted by BrasiliaFlyer

but am feeling comfortable where I am at the moment.

Originally Posted by FrontSeat

Here is what you can do. Starting at 6pm sit in your hallway closet with a vacuum cleaner running in there with you. You can wear earplugs and bring a TV dinner. Stay in there for 3 hours. Then at 9 pm you can turn off the vacuum cleaner and have your wife drive you around the neighborhood for 20 minutes. Have her stop every few minutes to blow the horn and open and shut a door hard each time.

Then return home and sit in a lazy boy chair in your garage for 4 hours. Then at 2am sit at your kitchen table and plan a flight to the west coast while having a radio loud in the background to simulate chatter of a hundred other pilots doing the same. Then have your wife drive you again around the neighborhood and repeat blowing horn and door slamming etc.

At 4 am get right back in that closet for another 3 hours with the vacuum on and another TV dinner. Then at 7 am leave the closet and walk around the outside of your house for about 30 minutes. Watch the sunrise and then go to sleep with the tv on to simulate the noise from other hotel guests and maids. Wake up at 11am and do this 4 nights in a row. Take 2 nights off and do it again.

If you really want to be like the majority sit in the closet about 3 hours before you start on day one to simulate a commute and again after day 4.

If you seriously can't or do not want to do this even as an experiment then don't apply.

Also don't forget to drag a couple of bags and wear a jacket and tie.

Originally Posted by BrasiliaFlyer

Gentlemen and Ladies,

I have taken the assessment, but am looking for a couple of answers from folks who know UPS...

Commuting: How difficult is it to commute for an entire career at UPS vs a pax airline? Now I know that commuting is never great, but with the type of trips and domiciles that a junior FO could expect to hold (say after the first year), is it feasible? Are most of the trips day (night) trips where you are back in domicile after several legs, or are the trips multi-day ones?

Everyone says how rough the domestic flying is... what kind of seniority is required to fly internationally? How long are those trips on average?

Is there any reason why a regional check airman who lives in base and works 16-18 days a month would want to stay at the regional? I'm just having trouble overcoming my short sightednes... I'm in my late 30s so I have plenty of years ahead, but am feeling comfortable where I am at the moment. After reading this thread, it sounds like QOL will be hard to come by for awhile.

Originally Posted by brownie

Staying at regional as a check airman or coming to brown...ummmmmmm was this a trick question. Here's one for you, if you had a dollar and somehow you knew the winning numbers for cash 3 or mega million which one would you play???

Originally Posted by FrontSeat

No FO at UPS makes serious money. Serious is a word reserved for fortune 500 CEO's and hedge fund managers. People here think so small in terms of what big money is. Yes it is good for a pilot but it is not "Serious" as you say.

And to make over 200 in your first 5 years you will be "doing much."

Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp

Virtually every airline that flies the 75 and 76 swap back and forth in the same manner. If you're complaining about that, you need better things to complain about.

Originally Posted by BrasiliaFlyer

I get the money part... no question...

I'm concerned with the quality of life aspect. I've seen so much negativity regarding qol I'm freaked out...
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