Originally Posted by
Gull
1.) I would not recommend an airline career - it does work out well for some, but many others are disappointed, then realize they are trapped where they don't want to be. As I said - it's not what you might think. You really are just a bus driver with a nicer view and will be treated as such by management who try to reduce your T&C's for your entire career. There are other jobs in - explore them all before settling on just one.
Sorry you feel that way, Gull. I've never felt like a glorified bus driver, despite two furloughs (one of them permanent due to the airline's shutdown), and having been a regional F/O for seven of my eleven years in the industry.
It's like everything else, at least half of it is what you make it.
My only regret is that I spent six years after high school trying my goshdarndest NOT to fly, and failed miserably...
Not a day goes by that I don't pinch myself. I've wanted to do this since I was 3, and I'm doing it. What price in the world can be put on that?