Keep an eye on each other and help out when you can.
Earlier this month a friend I haven't seen in almost a year came over for dinner with his relatively new family.
He came to EK five years ago, single and lived the life of a young man with some coin in his pocket.
He married the girl of his dreams and had their first child just a year later.
They now have a second child on the way.
The young man now looks much older and a lot more stressed.
His paycheck has not kept up with the bills from his new obligations as a family man.
He took me aside and described how overwhelmed he is, his prospects for promotion (command and a larger paycheck) look further away.
I can now see that we have several hundred pilots just like my friend.
They are becoming disillusioned or more to the point they can now start to see the reality.
Paychecks are staying the same but expenses are increasing either through a change in personal life (marriage, kids) or through inflation.
As a pilot group we are in trouble, keep an eye on each other and help out when you can.