Dang unions. Providing flyer a good life. No more of that! Capital supreme, labor eat poo.
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Not sure if you’re implying that was what I was implying. Certainly was not. Or maybe that was just your opinion.
I belonged to a union for several years and made considerably more money that my peers doing essentially the same work. Can’t say I miss the union though because it did create a barrier between employees and management. We survived, but I’ve found a much more lucrative career that didn’t require a union.
I’ve known probably fifty pilots through my neighbors, friends, and customers and noticed a trend early on. Besides all having perfect vision (not a pair of glasses among them – even in old age!), almost every one was a former military pilot. Finally, if the person was over 6 feet, he usually had been a fighter pilot then a commercial airline pilot. If the person was under 6 feet, they had been a military helo pilot then changed careers once they left the military. I can’t think of a single exception among the pilots I’ve met to that.
