If you think this job is hard I guess you've never had a real job.

This is the easiest job I've ever had.

Just my 2 cents.

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I find the job easy. If I stay as an FO, I will literally be doing the same thing with no added responsibility for years. I do not think it will get any harder overall.

Hard flights or a long trip from time to time? Sure, but that doesn't mean this is a difficult job at all.

Ok then I upgrade and there's a learning curve and new responsibility as a captain. Becoming proficient in a new seat or aircraft has a learning curve that may feel challenging for a month or two. Then it becomes routine and it's easy, and then you literally have no added responsibility for the rest of your life.

In normal jobs, as you get older and more experienced they give you raises in exchange for managing bigger projects, leading more people, and usually working longer hours. They take more work home with them and need to work weekends and nights if you want a bigger bonus. This is especially true for anyone making over $200k. These challenges or increasing difficulty is not the case for an airline pilot.

So no, I don't think this job is hard now, and am very grateful for that. It is a big reason why I chose to do this.

Also I don't know any cool pilots who honestly would try to convince me that this is a hard job. However, maybe there are exceptions! I'm always surprised by new things.

 

WTH is this? DSPS, obviously.

 

Me at the age of 20. Standing watch at night in a foxhole full of 6" of muck. Freezing rain and sleet. Frozen to the core. Teeth chattering so hard I think I cracked a tooth.
Me: "This really, really sucks. You need to get your act together and go to flight school."

 

Yeah I was in the jungles of Papua New Guinea dragging out seismic wire. It was hot, humid, and a couple thousand miles from home. I had been living in the jungle for a month. I was already sick of my work as the amount of damage it did to my body and brain, but it was when my boss pointed up at a jet there in PNG and said, “See, wouldn’t you rather be doing this instead being up there watching a plane fly?” that it clicked.

He was 100% serious, and so was I when I replied, “Yup.” Still very glad I made that decision

 

Anyone I’ve heard say it’s easy, is a bare-minimum kinda guy. And usually more interested in making phone calls during turns than being thorough.

But hey, those are the ‘cool’ pilots.

 

What a heartfelt story. Thanks for sharing.

 

I check the logbook for open write-ups and aircraft history, I check NOTAMs and the enroute weather as well as METARs and TAFs. Scouring the flight release for problems, as well as setting up the entire FMS/Weight & Balance.....takes less than 10 minutes.

The job is easy when it’s easy. Obviously, there are times when it’s not.

 

Ha I know it’s total sarcasm here, but yeah, no problem. I’m excited to be here

 

This. And the times when it’s not is when all of your pay is earned.