What would you leave this job for?
02-15-2018, 03:33 AM
#41
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Joined APC: Jul 2006
Posts: 5,544
Originally Posted by Al Czervik
Im sure you found the data, but this can’t be right.
Originally Posted by Al Czervik
No, I get it. It just seems low.
Check out the book Hillbilly Elegy.
02-15-2018, 10:11 AM
#42
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jul 2009
Position: Downwind, headed straight for the rocks, shanghaied aboard the ship of fools.
Posts: 1,128
Originally Posted by BoilerUP
I know AIA-certified architects and electrical/mechanical/civil PEs with Masters degrees and 2+ decades of experience who make less salary than guarantee of a second year FO at the current “Big Six”...to say nothing of retirement and medical. They also are largely tied to a laptop/iPad or phone.
Lawyers are the same way; good pay but hours that would make a ACMI pilot from 25 years ago cry.
Pilots can be a myopic bunch at times...
If you want stimulation, get a hobby - you should be able to afford it.
Lawyers are the same way; good pay but hours that would make a ACMI pilot from 25 years ago cry.
Pilots can be a myopic bunch at times...
If you want stimulation, get a hobby - you should be able to afford it.
Boiler, I’ve always enjoyed your posts. Another good one.
02-15-2018, 10:46 AM
#44
Line Holder
Joined APC: Aug 2010
Posts: 66
Originally Posted by rickair7777
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.
02-15-2018, 11:24 AM
#45
You scratched my anchor
Joined APC: Feb 2011
Posts: 4,876
Originally Posted by crewdawg
No, we just live in a completely different world than many Americans. My first year at a Major, I made more than my parents have ever made (combined)...and they worked their butts off, to raise 3 children. For whatever reason most people see it as taboo to talk about what they make, but if they did, I think you'd be shocked. What we make would be absolutely mind boggling to the average American.
Check out the book Hillbilly Elegy.
Check out the book Hillbilly Elegy.
02-15-2018, 01:41 PM
#46
Prime Minister/Moderator
Joined APC: Jan 2006
Position: Engines Turn Or People Swim
Posts: 39,211
Originally Posted by Bluesky1
Unless you work for yourself. 300K per year and home every night with no hotels (unless on vacation), no bidding to get special days off. TO each his own. That's what makes this such a great country. There is no right or wrong answer.
To get a small business to $300K free and clear and personal schedule flexibility involves it's own brand of dues paying. The safest and most predictable path there is probably fast-food franchises... but frankly I'd rather fly a jet, at least I can look out the window.
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