Originally Posted by
Offchocks
I never use to volunteer what I did for a living until the questions backed me into a corner. I was never ashamed of my profession, but I’m just not the sort of person who self promotes.
I do think that describing your job as a driver, which some do, is a bit degrading and the public may start to believe it as such. No offence meant to truck drivers.
Agree, pilots are often their own worst enemies:
‘a trained monkey could do it’
‘just sit up here and push buttons’
are the sort of inane comments that have a large contingent of the public misunderstand and show contempt for what is still a fine profession, requiring a high level of technical skill, knowledge, good judgment and co -ordination
Impugning your own
profession is not clever