Scudrunners

[url=https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news ... pilot-pool]https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news ... pilot-pool[/url]




Show me the Money

Easy enough, just switch to unqualified pilots.

[quote]Show me the Money[/quote]

[url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/22/tech ... aries.html]https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/22/tech ... aries.html[/url]

[quote]Typical A.I. specialists, including both Ph.D.s [b]fresh out of school and people with less education and just a few years of experience[/b], can be paid from [u]$300,000 to $500,000 a year[/u] or more in salary and company stock, according to nine people who work for major tech companies or have entertained job offers from them.

Well-known names in the A.I. field have received compensation in salary and shares in a company’s stock that total [b]single- or double-digit millions over a four- or five-year period[/b].[/quote]

He meant “show me the money” for having to do the bare minimum. Ie. fly airplanes to pleasant places  ;D 
Not work your tail off to build our future digital overlords.

Oh.

I always thought it was cool to see your work go into
world-class products, even if Rockie always told me I
was a loser for doing that.

[url=https://www.networkworld.com/article/23 ... books.html]https://www.networkworld.com/article/23 ... books.html[/url]

I spent some years improving the reliability of the
blow-out protection software on the offshore drilling
rigs, after the BP fiasco in the Gulf of Mexico. 

[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowout_preventer]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowout_preventer[/url]

I thought that was a worthwhile use of my time, even
if airline pilots thought I was a fuckhead for trying to
stop that from happening again.

[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater ... _oil_spill]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater ... _oil_spill[/url]

[quote]In July 2015, BP agreed to pay [b]$18.7 billion[/b] in fines, the largest corporate settlement in U.S. history[/quote]

I guess that's not much money to someone like Rockie.

What astounds me is that with all of that under your belt, the Rockies of the world even show up on your radar.


I don't have what you have, because I haven't applied myself like you have. I think everyone needs to come to terms with that in their lives at some point.