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Originally Posted by flyingkangaroo (Post 86363)

At 40,000 a year i could still invest enough to live a good life down the road!

LMAOROTF! Now that's funny!! That's because you live in your parent's basement, and eat their food for free. Does you Mom still do your laundry and fold your socks?

Let's see how far those 40 bones takes you with a mortgage payment, kids in school, utilities, and other normal bills that that make up a household budget. My guess is that you'll be eating a lot of Top Ramen, and foregoing the large 401K, or IRA contribution to make ends meet. You might want to re-think that statement there, Rockafeller.

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Originally Posted by flyingkangaroo

Im not saying FO's dont deserve more but come one people! you can get with a good company with awesome upgrade times if you want! even a "moronic idiont" like myself could think of 10 airlines with awesome upgrade times and descent pay! quit complaining cause you have a bad contract with the company you are at!!! Go TO A NEW AIRLINE!!!

You need to save the above quoted text and read it again in 20 years. The "moronic idiot" comment will make a whole lot more sense then.

Enjoy your flying "career."

flyingkangaroo = instructordude??

I'm all for his attitude and spunk, but it never ceases to amaze me how someone can be so enlightened and knowledgeable without any experience whatsoever.

I'm sure he could save a little on $40k if he wants to continue as a single guy in an apartment with a roommate or two, eating mac and cheese and wasting his life playing online Xbox games.

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Originally Posted by HotMamaPilot (Post 84820)

you are clearly an idiot. Obviously you are not a pilot and are only a wannabee. This isn't the 1970's...kids no longer smile at airline pilots. And as for the dream: my husband lost his pension. Is that part of "the dream", you moronic idiot?:mad:

I see kids smile at me and other pilots all the time, they look in the cockpit with a huge grin of amazement. As for the pension thing, that happened to more than just pilots. Look at the auto industry, you think they planned that. Pensions were promised knowing they would be underfunded, your beef is not with the industry or the job, it is with the constant battle with upper management and the lack of respect from them. Please don't think that I don't sympathize with anyone who lost their pension. I do, I can't even imagine the sickening feeling that anyone must have felt when they realized it was gone. The bottom line is that this industry is changing, but so are a lot of other industries. Pensions are a thing of the past, and it easier to accept if you started flying for a living in the last five years. Bottom line is that it is unfortunate that your husband and many others lost their pensions, but please do not call others idiots because they chose to do something for a living that they enjoy. Not all of us want to be a doctor, lawyer, police officer, or own our own business. P.S. not all of this post was pointed directly at you HotMamaPilot.