No, I can promise you I won't be.

I'll live in a box in Riverdale before I commute to OAK.
LOL - nice. I figure you can probably hold reserve in MDW or HOU if you wait 'til the end of the transition. I can hold them now, but just barely. Then again, I don't want to go back on reserve, and the only way I can use ELITT to get rid of stuff efficiently (from what little I understand of it) is to hold a line SOMEWHERE. Will hate commuting 5 hours each way but I'll probably bid LAS, cheap hotels for uncommutable trips and better seniority to get rid of things, try to pick up trips out of BWI or MCO.
I figure I only need 65 TFP to break even for what I make here, so I'll drop down to that each month if I can get rid of the trips, then pick up what I can to stay working about 12-13 days a month, if I don't find those trips and get stuck at 65 Trips, can still easily pay the bills. Someone mentioned that ELITT lets you straight drop one trip per month? The rest you have to give away to someone if you want rid of it? Or did I misunderstand him...?
Yeah but, now you'll get to see LBB, MAF, and AMA more than you EVER thought you would, EVER! You might see 5 different cities, all within Texas, in the same day! At least your pay will increase enough to pay for a nice hotel near the LAS or OAK airports....
Well, I hear they have lots of steers and the other thing in those cities. Maybe I'll buy me some cows and start a farm while I'm roaming the Western TX range. Isn't that where they filmed "Brokeback Mountain"?
Good luck guys, and if you don't like it, a certain airline I know may start hiring in 2014.....the 717 should be junior in ATL and DTW.....
Well, thanks for the hint, but I'm stuck here even if I wasn't getting a little old to start over again and make up the lost income from leaving 8th year SWA F/O pay to 1st year DAL pay. Kolski and Klaus fixed that for me. I'll always have to report the termination on employment applications, however wrongful it was and however many court battles I won, even when they voluntarily admitted it wasn't fraud and gave me back my Work Comp, approved the surgery, etc.
There's an arbitration precedent for that from about 7 years ago that you MUST report a termination on your job application, even if it was overturned and expunged by an arbitrator (a guy permanently lost his Legacy carrier job and lost his arbitration over it because he didn't report an overturned termination). With that in mind, I can't see a Legacy taking someone with that on their record, even if the REST of their record is perfect, with lots of positive 'atta boys for customer service and good job performance and such in his file (like mine) when there are THOUSANDS of RJ applicants with perfect records applying for a few hundred jobs.
Likely my application wouldn't even make it through the electronic screening process to a human eye at any of the Legacies. Such is life, and is sometimes the price you pay for sticking your neck out for what you believe in. That's why ALPA has Flight Pay Loss for union-associated job actions in their ByLaws; I'm not the first to suffer some reciprocity, and likely won't be the last. But even with that, it does limit your options later.
I'll find a happy place over there and fly out my career, even though it won't ever be what I was hoping and planning for it to be since before I was in High School. That's one of the things I have learned through all this - find your happy place outside aviation; the industry is too volatile to make your job the basis for that happiness. Come to work, do your job to the best of your abilities with a good attitude, have as much fun as possible, go home to what's important. The rest will take care of itself. :beer: