I agree, most of us get pretty spoiled in the airlines. As with everything else you cant judge an entire group of pilots based on what they are used to. Some airlines do mostly charter work and not the nice caribbean kind, but the crappy mid east , africa and any other armpit, and are quite used to being self reliant. Having said that, there is A LOT to be said for switching to corp. Its been my experience though, that unless you have been cutivating your relations with friends and connection in the corp world even when you were flying the airlines, it is very hard to break into cold. Its a different world and you need to adapt. The airlines are not what they used to be and they never will. So if anyones got a line on a job on Long Island , let me know.