Chronic Jetlag
I'm great at sleep'n in
- Joined
- Sep 18, 2003
- Posts
- 202
Look in the mirror
Falconjet said:You forgot that really cool title the company gave you too! jet Pilot
Falconjet:
With all due respect and I think I speak for all of the JB guys, 90% or more of the pilots here have been to the circus and seen the puppet show. Sarcasm and condescending remarks really have no place here. Do you really think all the guys here joined JB to build jet time? Ask around and see what the competitive mins are...ask yourself how many here are furloughed from the Legacy carriers. Your comment is moronic and immature and it only reflects on your own insecurities. Who is the one that needs a title to validate their self worth?
Wake up and smell reality. We live in a free market economy and we do not get paid for what we're worth; rather we get paid what the market will bear. Can you quantifly how much an athlete is worth? 5-10 million/year for a QB in the NFL? It's what the market for bear! You can't quantify what a pilot is worth. If it were up to me I think we're all skygods and should be paid $300K/year with 21 days off per month. Unfortunately the aviation landscape has changed and that's reality. Honestly ask yourself what your skills are worth to corporate America if you were furloughed? Your skills and everyone else's on this board is worth exactly ZERO.
We pilots get lulled into thinking we're better than everyone else; especially when times were good and some got paid $250K/year. We start to believe we're worth that much and anything less would be an insult and a grave injustice to our profession. I'm happy that some did get paid that much; hell...I want everyone to get paid that much. Fact of the matter is our piloting skills and experience is a trade, and like any other trade it's subject to market forces.
Want to be heard here? Say something half way intelligent.