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Old 11-03-2009, 06:42 PM
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Originally Posted by usmc-sgt View Post
This guy is living the dream. On 3rd year pay at my dream of a regional im $13,700 under that mark. Oh well.....I did it to myself. Its only temporary.........right?
And in year seven at my regional I'm only making $2,000 over that mark. Who's dream is farther out of reach?

And it's only temporary until you turn 65. Then it's for keeps.
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Old 04-14-2013, 03:02 PM
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Isn't the guy in the OP story one of the union guys who's been living the high life on union money? Calamari and high end dinners, with lots of liquid encouragement.
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Old 04-14-2013, 03:23 PM
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Yup and he hasn't even touched an airplane since 3/27/2011

He's based on the CRJ in DFW which hasn't been a CRJ base for a while and he's getting 95 hours of CRJ CA pay per month.
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Yup and he hasn't even touched an airplane since 3/27/2011

He's based on the CRJ in DFW which hasn't been a CRJ base for a while and he's getting 95 hours of CRJ CA pay per month.
While never actually qualifying as CA at all I might add.
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Old 04-14-2013, 05:34 PM
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saw over on Eagle lounge, he has been having nice expensive breakfast's with his wife on the union dime. Also been boozing away on the union dime, I guess thats why he has all those alcohol related posts on here if you look at his post history.
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Old 04-14-2013, 06:36 PM
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Schedules did not evolve into this overnight. If you can't properly manage your rest time on a consistent basis then maybe this ain't the job for you.

I would rather have a productive four day trip than an 18 hour layover in some ****hole Midwest city. Just wait for the schedules when the new rest rules kick in. Fewer days off and lower credit.

It's not hard to find another job making $38,000. Good luck ever breaking $75,000 outside of the airline industry if you can only work 9 to 5 Mon-Fri while constantly complaining about long work days and short nights.
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Old 04-14-2013, 07:05 PM
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Schedules did not evolve into this overnight. If you can't properly manage your rest time on a consistent basis then maybe this ain't the job for you.

I would rather have a productive four day trip than an 18 hour layover in some ****hole Midwest city. Just wait for the schedules when the new rest rules kick in. Fewer days off and lower credit.

It's not hard to find another job making $38,000. Good luck ever breaking $75,000 outside of the airline industry if you can only work 9 to 5 Mon-Fri while constantly complaining about long work days and short nights.
heres a napkin.
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Old 04-15-2013, 08:06 AM
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no the booger cant. he is a loser like the rest of the mec.
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Old 04-15-2013, 08:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Dirty Sanchez View Post
It's not hard to find another job making $38,000. Good luck ever breaking $75,000 outside of the airline industry if you can only work 9 to 5 Mon-Fri while constantly complaining about long work days and short nights.
Maybe that's the hard part, making money while complaining about working. LoL. I'm pretty sure the goal of most individuals is to make the most money, while working the least number of hours possible.

Outside of the flying biz, it took me 4 years to move from my $55k/yr starting salary to a $70k/yr salary. I recently got a promotion, so i'm finally in the $80k/yr range, but as stated, that took me 4 years and included a competitive promotion.
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Originally Posted by flynavyj View Post
Maybe that's the hard part, making money while complaining about working. LoL. I'm pretty sure the goal of most individuals is to make the most money, while working the least number of hours possible.

Outside of the flying biz, it took me 4 years to move from my $55k/yr starting salary to a $70k/yr salary. I recently got a promotion, so i'm finally in the $80k/yr range, but as stated, that took me 4 years and included a competitive promotion.
If you had started at the regionals four years ago you would still make less then 35K a year at most regionals. This is 20K less then what you started at. ... Just pointing out the obvious.

I love what I do though, so I guess that counts for something...
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