What would you leave this job for?
#23
I stay mentally engaged in the technical aspects of aviation, which is a pretty big playground encompassing many flavors of engineering and computer tech.
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#24
Subject pops up now and then, more so during the purgatory years of crap pay and CHP11 after 9/11.
Obviously we have plenty of guys with STEM and business backgrounds who did well during the time. Most were in their 30's and 40's.
What we tend not to hear during the "grass is always greener" discussions are the number of 50+ year olds in these other careers with great pay, bonuses, pensions and responsibility who are summarily terminated with no real hope of regaining similar positions at that age. The "Rockstars" of course tend to do well, but that bid position seems limited.
Obviously we have plenty of guys with STEM and business backgrounds who did well during the time. Most were in their 30's and 40's.
What we tend not to hear during the "grass is always greener" discussions are the number of 50+ year olds in these other careers with great pay, bonuses, pensions and responsibility who are summarily terminated with no real hope of regaining similar positions at that age. The "Rockstars" of course tend to do well, but that bid position seems limited.
#25
What we tend not to hear during the "grass is always greener" discussions are the number of 50+ year olds in these other careers with great pay, bonuses, pensions and responsibility who are summarily terminated with no real hope of regaining similar positions at that age. The "Rockstars" of course tend to do well, but that bid position seems limited.
Frankly if you're a highly paid, highly experienced (translation: old) worker you're either a rockstar or a target. Somebody can fire you, hire a 20-something for 1/3 your pay, and then claim a $15K bonus on their annual evaluation for efficiency.
#26
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jul 2013
Posts: 9,940
Pilots tend not to understand this. Once you've made it in the white-collar world... then you have to keep it. Every day. Every single day. And that includes days off.
Frankly if you're a highly paid, highly experienced (translation: old) worker you're either a rockstar or a target. Somebody can fire you, hire a 20-something for 1/3 your pay, and then claim a $15K bonus on their annual evaluation for efficiency.
Frankly if you're a highly paid, highly experienced (translation: old) worker you're either a rockstar or a target. Somebody can fire you, hire a 20-something for 1/3 your pay, and then claim a $15K bonus on their annual evaluation for efficiency.
#27
“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.”
It’s more enjoyable being a fox.
#28
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jul 2009
Position: Downwind, headed straight for the rocks, shanghaied aboard the ship of fools.
Posts: 1,128
Going to have to disagree with you on both points. Most STEM types wold be bored as hell driving the same airplane to the same places over and over again. It's not nearly as technical as most new tech jobs today.
300K is only made by the same old out of touch guys squatting on the 20,000 jobs at the legacies that pay that. Nobody else in aviation makes that. This is evidenced by your post.
300K is only made by the same old out of touch guys squatting on the 20,000 jobs at the legacies that pay that. Nobody else in aviation makes that. This is evidenced by your post.
#29
Pilots tend not to understand this. Once you've made it in the white-collar world... then you have to keep it. Every day. Every single day. And that includes days off.
Frankly if you're a highly paid, highly experienced (translation: old) worker you're either a rockstar or a target. Somebody can fire you, hire a 20-something for 1/3 your pay, and then claim a $15K bonus on their annual evaluation for efficiency.
Frankly if you're a highly paid, highly experienced (translation: old) worker you're either a rockstar or a target. Somebody can fire you, hire a 20-something for 1/3 your pay, and then claim a $15K bonus on their annual evaluation for efficiency.
#30
About a dollar more than what I am paid.
Seriously, here are the percentile of all salaries in the US.
$38,000 - 50th percentile
$108,000 - 90th percentile
$150,000 - 95th percentile
$300,000 - 99th percentile
You decide where “highly paid” is. 90th percentile? 95th? 99th?
Seriously, here are the percentile of all salaries in the US.
$38,000 - 50th percentile
$108,000 - 90th percentile
$150,000 - 95th percentile
$300,000 - 99th percentile
You decide where “highly paid” is. 90th percentile? 95th? 99th?
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