I went over 50k as a Captain and havent been there 3 years. How many RJ FO's make that and get to log P..........I.............C?
Treating per diem as income is like depending on overtime for salary. It isnt realistic. They pay you per diem because you are living in sometimes crappy hotel rooms and eating crappy food. Shupubliqua lists 1.60 and hour per diem on airlinepilotcentral. That is about 38 bucks a day. An average meal is going to cost you 7-10 bucks. That doesnt include any other items along the way on a 4 day trip. So per diem is just about used up. Of course there are those who want to scrape and scrounge to survive so they can call per diem take home salary..... sounds like ********************ty QOL. Years of hard work to basically eat from garbage? I guess they are right about not needing to much brains to fly an RJ if you would subject yourself to that. Living on the road sucks.... plain and simple. Hotels suck.... plain and simple. Commuting sucks.... plain and simple. If you have to do any of those.... you better be making beaucoup coin. How many RJ FO's can claim that. NONE. So at Colgan you can sleep in your own bed and eat better and live easier for some. CJC is certainly far from the end all of aviation jobs..... but it can be worse. Everything is relative to the individual. Flying is flying is flying. Planes go up and then they come down..... people sit in the back.... it pollutes the hell out of the environment.... wings hold them up and wheels put them down and since the earth isnt growing they all go back and forth to the same places everyday. If you get all tickled down in your nether regions about what your plane looks like and how cool you think it is just wait until you get your hands on your first girl..... you will forget all about whether your plane sucks or blows because that is what she is for. Those in life that complain the loudest..... usually always complain no matter what they are doing or where they are doing it and they usually arent very good at what they do. Those who have the greatest worth as people can make it work no matter what they do or where they do it. This is just a job....an actitivity most used to pay to do as a hobby. It has many negative aspects but few in the world can claim they do everyday what they dreamed of doing. We all bash each other and the companies we work for but it is still in bored fun and we all agree MESA sucks.... but we are all doing the same thing. We make the best of what we have and try to enjoy each day we are above ground and hopefully we will get lucky to improve on our personal situations. Everyone wants to make 200,000 and work a few days a month and go to exotic places but that just isnt possible except for maybe a few. CJC did alright by me. They gave me a job at a time when the industry was taking a lot of jobs away. Did some challenging flying, met some pretty cool people, made some money and got some FA ass. I bet there is a lot of all that going on in a lot of other places too.
