the math part that always gives me trouble is:
how much money i spent to get here in the ever
changing ratio to how much money i am getting here, in comparison to how much it costs to be here, versus how much it costs to move, multiplied by how often the airlines have then changed the bases, factored by the risk of the airlines going out of business, balanced with the cost of getting a new job, starting new aircraft and the whole game again, allowing for the ever reducing chances of employment due to increasing age, decreasing visual accuity, ever increasing cost of living, the ever increasing taxes, with how many hours i spend away from home per hour of flight, per hour in hotel room, per strange meal in strange restaurant,
not to neglect;
one needs to be adept at estimating the amount of radiation being received whilst sitting in the cockpit with the aircraft radar on, taking into consideration the radar energy of all these other aircraft around contributing their bits as well, not to mention ATC's radar and unknow military activities and experiments.
one needs to be able of calculating the danger of allowing one's blood sugar level to continue dropping with its adverse effect on performance in direct proportion to the danger of eating the remaining crew meal after cabin crew have had their choice of offerings.
one needs the ability to rapidly and correctly calculate the proportion of truth and bovine feces contained within the calculations, decisions and announcements of upper management.
above all one must be able, by recall, to measure the differences between being employed and not being employed, between flying and not flying, between admitting the mistakes one has made in his or her career and learning from them rather than blaming others for adverse conditions
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