Any chance you could rerun your calculations? 9500 was just a little low. I sure would like to see a number more like...10,100 ish, heck how about 0. All kidding aside, enjoy what’s to come. Cheers!

 

Exactly.
That isn't something that a critical thinking person would do. Especially one who seems to pride himself on balancing his 'part time job' with his full time job. Motch is right. Dude is full of poo.

 

There is more to a career decision than just money. I had a friend who was making good money as an engineer, but he didn’t like the job. He started a machine shop and quit his engineering job. He makes far less money now, but he enjoys what he does and has no regrets. Being a pilot is just a job. If this guy is happier teaching full time than flying, more power to him.

 

Agreed but doing the “math” you can’t possibly formulate a higher sole income from teaching than doing both jobs. Me thinks that MT is full of bovine scatology.

 

He said he had to quit to get on the tenure track. Maybe the math works because he's factoring is teaching until he's 80. IDK, but why does everyone care so much about his choice. You guys are like crabs in a bucket.

 

You quit. That should have been it. Period. You made your choice. Why we are allowing you to change your game and take taxpayer money is insane. California dreaming indeed.

 

Mathteacher, why don’t you offer your analytical skills (for a fee) to the UAL MEC? I’m being serious. It’s evident from the town halls that there’s already a guy fluent in creating “charts and graphs” to show how bad this is. What they desperately need is help going several levels deeper to forecast how the whole crapshow might play out.

 

True,

I don’t give a hoot what this guy does. I also don’t think he is (was) a United pilot. And in the end neither matters one tiny little bit to me.

 

Your boss comes in your office once a week and says theres a 5% chance that you’re getting that Nigeria job next month. After a year of living in fear and feeling like your fate is out of your control, you finally just volunteer for the sh_tty assignment. Doesn’t sound that irrational to me. In fact, if you live in base and bid a line, aren’t you the type that would rather work 15 Known and planned for days a month, rather than roll the dice working less on reserve?

it’s not that MT’s choice was rational or economically prudent, maybe he’s just the type of person who doesn’t do well operating in the unknown, especially when you’re talking about your 50s and 60s. A time when we’d all like to be doing a victory lap and enjoying the proverbial fruits of our labor (unless you’re a ditch digger who likes gardening, in which case it would be the literal fruits of your labor).

 

He is going to be paying for it in the future ... Just like everyone else.