Don’t worry. If they’re a pilot, they’re gonna tell you.
Pilots, vegans, and polyamorous couples.
polyamorous couples
I mean how else would we recruit more people for our D&D sessions?
Don’t forget about Linux users!
For a while, people who did CrossFit too
They’re all suffering from injuries now.
If someone is a vegan, polyamorous linux user who’s a pilot, which one would they mention first?
They give you a card.
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All pilots are vegans? And in a polyamorous relationship?
Well the poly kinda checks out, they’re banging every stewardess they come across, so…
They’ve kind of earned it. Just watching an airline pilot put 200 people down safely in a crosswind is all the convincing one needs.
That’s vegans.
What about the guys that pump the go-juice into the wing tanks?
they get fired
He probably practised his whole life for this moment, I bet he has other lines too
It’s a cultivated status. You have to have a lot of money to become one, you get paid a lot of money, and then you don’t get to have a domestic life once you become one. So a lot goes into selling they lifestyle of being a pilot, which is what aura really is but don’t tell the kids that.
The first two lines weren’t true until more recently. Becoming a pilot was expensive, but not out of reach. You could literally do it by earning money fueling planes up until ~20 years ago. Also, you didn’t get paid shit up until 10 years ago and they started desperately throwing money at new pilots to hire and keep them. Even some larger airlines paid like shit for newer pilots depending on aircraft for a really long while.
The dream was to make it to a major and put enough years in to make the big money.
But in the last decade things have really changed. Pay is decent even for a lot of the smaller aircraft (but not great, depending). But training costs are outrageous compared to 25-35 years ago.
Good to know. Thanks for the fact check
Not trying to contradict, just add a little updating and nuance.
No, I got you 👍
But also nobody wants to see a pilot rushing through the airport, because they’re supposed to be calm, levelheaded people. And you definitely don’t want them rushing through takeoff procedures.
Yeah, they should be nice and relaxed. Maybe a few drinks at the bar would help
The last line is in regular rotation.
No thanks. I don’t simp for job positions.
I do not understand why people do that for jobs that what, how many, 100’000? have.
I’m an accomplished native English speaker, but suspect this may be written in a foreign language. strokes beard adjusts bow tie .
I have native-level proficiency in Cantonese, Mandarin, and English.
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(okay I didn’t wanna brag, but, I didn’t start it lol)
Ah, are you?
Thank you both. I’ve never had the honour of having a comment downvoted so many times on Lemmy, so I presume that I raised some Gen Z hackles with my response. I know what an aura is, of course.
