Originally Posted by
Major Cleve Saville
I agree. A high level of automation, no real skill required, it's turned into a technocratic memory test. Everyday is about managing/fighting fatigue with no job satisfaction.
I will be done this year, after 40 years its no longer what I signed up for.
After 38 years and well over 20,000 hours in the industry, the vast majority of which was spent in wide body twins or 4 engine jets, I too have, reluctantly, reached a similar conclusion.
Fatigue and over proceduralisation, with airmanship, skill and judgement no longer required means the job satisfaction has been forcibly removed and although the money bucket is not quite as full as I would like, we will cope and I will get my health, life and peace of mind back.
Pointless waiting for things to improve. If they were going to, they would have by now.