Just finished washing my windows on a 30 foot ladder because I had nothing else constructive to do with my time. Took my wife out for a nice golf outing. Went to dinner. Drank beer. Knocked back a few honey jack cinnamon whiskey shots and thought to myself... "Damn, I'd rather be flying airplanes than D***king with washing these MF'ing windows on the outside of my house. 40 of them. Rather fly an airplane, than deal with that shiznit.

Or, I can be like some on here and say enough is enough. But I have 24 days off in a row, no vacation. WTF. Please protect me from me.

Cheers

Side hustles are great if they are mainly passive or low maintenance. I make functional art out of old bike parts and sell a bit of my photography but otherwise it's mostly fun and in my spare time. Not raking it in, but some fun spending $$ never hurt.

Definitely a good idea to keep another skill current though in the event of a medical issue or furlough. Never know in this biz.

I agree with Buck. My side hustle is picking up flying. If I pick up one extra day of flying a month that is roughly $20K/yr. I happen to love coming to work and doing this job. I don't have or want to do something else that can bring me an extra 20K/yr. The biggest risk though is I need to retain my health to keep doing it.

It helps that I live in base and can easily pickup one days.

Oh, I've also written some
magazine articles and those are good for $100-$150 a pop at my typical length. Pays for my subscriptions.

I do enjoy seeing what others do though, very much.

A while back before the merger I was a DC9 copilot in DTW, one day we had a whale captain on the JS to xyz. He was happier than a pig in sh!t, he had just left the 'Apartment' in the Phillipines, with a bucket full of cash that his girls had given him. Oldest profession in the world...and of course dont forget all the perks that comes with ownership!

I like the part where he freely shared that he was a human trafficker, and that you presumably let a coworker go on about his trafficking business without so much as a raised eyebrow. But hey, it’s probably legal in the Philippines! And they aren’t like, you know, real people like Americans, right? Yikes.


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So coming from a long time at a regional and not being really aggressive with long term planning, this is the first year I am going to be maxing out personal 401K contributions at $18,500 + 16% from the company.

We plan to put 100% of my flying income into retiring early and living solely off the spouses income. She also maxes out her 401K contributions. What would the financial "guru's" :D here recommend putting the rest into? Real estate rentals? S&P Index fund? Both?

We both put money into the stock market outside of our 401K, but have been looking into real estate as our next move. Just starting to read tons of books on the subject but some of you guys have years of a head start on me so you could probably provide some good insight.

*note, clearly not just basing decisions off a pilot board, but nice to hear ideas and what everyone else is doing.

If you can live off your spouses income I would work long enough to afford about a 26 foot Grady White with twin 300’s. I would retire at that point and let the wife work forever!

Soooo you're saying you don't like whiskey? :D

Sounds to me he likes whiskey,,, Just doesn’t like the taste of whiskey...

A fall from a 30 foot ladder at worst could be fatal, if you're lucky you could just break a leg or end up in a wheel chair the rest of your life. I'd consider hiring a window washer for a couple hundred bucks. About 10 years ago a former governor of Nevada was cleaning his gutters in 100 degree heat, passed ou, fell off the ladder, cracked his head open and died.