[quote=svelte][quote=flyer]
I retired from American before 60 thanks to real estate. Another reason to have a “Plan B.”[/quote]
Well that explains how you’ve done it – pilots make a great living. If you’ve got perfect eyesight and are over 6 feet tall, you’re eligible to attempt a career as a pilot.
I would have never been eligible.
Many of my current and former neighbors are pilots. One of them, an American pilot, rarely ever worked. He always opted for the standby slots and was home almost all the time. Downside: he could never drink because he didn’t know if he’d be called in. Sometimes us neighbors would watch their kids overnight for them (his wife was a nurse). They were great people so we didn’t mind, but he sure made a lot of money for not much work.[/quote]
Dang unions. Providing flyer a good life. No more of that! Capital supreme, labor eat poo.
Would be better to feel free ones whole life indeed. Ive been so worried about my place in society so long its difficult to imagine not worrying.
Thats perhaps the dream of retirement. That you no longer have to care what the marketplace thinks of you. No more worrying about your performance.. . Youre just a free old weirdo.
But then…thats possible at any moment. Just…stop caring…
