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Originally Posted by skydog  I am completely serious. A guy earning 30K a year to fly a Metro should turn down twice that to do an easier job? All other things being equal, why would anyone do that?
I understand why guys like Doug Taylor or DE727 (don't know his name) want me to turn it down. It undermines their big fat paychecks. No surprise there. The elites of the world have always advocated keeping the little man down because it strengthens the ground upon which they, the elites, stand. I understand their motivation. What I don't understand is why the little man so willingly goes along with it.
You say that 65K is not enough to fly an airplane. But then you turn around and tell me I should keep slogging away for half of that pay? Which is it? |
Go ahead and go $100,000 in debt for a $65,000/year top-end job.
It's America.
But the nanosecond that you complain about lack of duty rigs, no per diem, supporting a family of four on $65 G's and a lot of other professional aviation issues you hadn't considered or didn't know existed today, I'll show a copy of this post to you.
Hopefully, by that time, the other carriers haven't come down in compensation and benefits in order to match that cost structure and curry favor of Wall Street so you might have somewhere to escape to.
Believe me, I've been there. I'm trying to offer you guys a short cut to reality without the hard lessons that I had to learn and the bitter pills I had to swallow.
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