Age 60 informal poll

[pilotyip]

Capt Mark you give me way too much credit, I am just a score keeper, and clerk, ground school instructor, check airman, and all around pain in the butt to upper management, and a very lucky pilot to be where I am right now. But not as lucky as you getting hired at FedEx two years out of college.

 

[§kyye Candy]

Legally? No. In theory? Absolutely.

What PCL said!

 

[CaptainMark]

Capt Mark you give me way too much credit, I am just a score keeper, and clerk, ground school instructor, check airman, and all around pain in the butt to upper management, and a very lucky pilot to be where I am right now. But not as lucky as you getting hired at FedEx two years out of college.

i guess we are both lucky..lets keep it that way...

 

[§kyye Candy]

See looks like a couple of pilots with some impressive credentials are on board that 100K is a not something to be ignored as a poverty wage.

a) nobody said it was a "poverty wage"... but it's not the Ritz, either!

b) who knows what anyone's credentials are - it's a message board!

How do you think most any professional with equivalent training/investment would react to having a 100K paycheck?

 

[§kyye Candy]

P.s.

Capt Mark you give me way too much credit, I am just a score keeper, and clerk, ground school instructor, check airman, and all around pain in the butt to upper management, and a very lucky pilot to be where I am right now. But not as lucky as you getting hired at FedEx two years out of college.

I notice, in addition to all of these extra duties, you have in your profile some military a/c experience... must have been a lot easier to buy a home/plan for retirement with a pension check coming in!

 

[CaptainMark]

he is a little out of touch..that's all...

 

[pilotyip]

Reserve retirement, my son, reserve retirement, did not see a penny of it until two years ago. Still had to buy a house 9 years ago or pay 25 years of captial gains on 5 shouses I had owned. It is nice to have as I approach retirement, but it is available to almost anyone on this board who wants to go for it.

 

[pilotyip]

Capt Mark what am I out of touch with? The fact your are a FedEx Capt and I am a lowly non-sked freight dog at YIP? That I should not post what I see as orrect becasue my views have no valve when they are not in agreement with a Fed Ex Captain at the top of the food chain? Again what am I out of touch with?

 

[pilotyip]

skycandy I least I do not hide who I am with a cute profile with no real information about who you are.

 

[CaptainMark]

all these posts in a row..give somebody else some space...as for your question...the younger generation!

 

[pilotyip]

Capt Mark you seem to be on a roll yourself, Out of touch with the younger generation, I was here first, the younger generation is out of touch with the guys who built this business

 

[CaptainMark]

you built fedex..? hey thanks... enough dude..see ya

 

[PCL_128]

Again what am I out of touch with?

With the value of $100k in 2006 dollars, not to mention the true worth of your skills and experience as a professional pilot. You've been stuck at that horrible non-sked for so long that anything seems good. You've never made over $100k because USAJet refuses to pay a fair wage, so you decide that $100k is some magical number. You find flying easy after 30 years of it, so you go around saying that "you can even teach a monkey to fly." It's sad, really.

 

[CaptainMark]

yeah..what he said...!

 

[pilotyip]

I determine the wage I am paid by my company is a fair wage, it is all they can afford. If they paid us more they may not be profitable, able to attract capital, and grow the business in a rapidly changing market. So my under $100K job is better than what I would face if the company failed. I have shopped over the past few years and no where could I make more than I make now. $100K jobs are tuff to come by, look at all the posts of those who also have never made that number. BTW I have never said you could teach a money to fly, I have said it is an easily acquired skill, anyone with a certain level of comprehension and desire can learn to fly an airplane. Check Asquared posts he agrees. BTW also it is 40 years