Just do it

It's a crisis. To be precise, it's the first one since I started this whole airline pilot thing. From one day to the next flights are cut, airplanes are parked and hundreds fear to be laid off. My comfortable position on the seniority list is suddenly threatened to transform into a bottomless nightmare. Being a "thinking everything through" type of guy gives me the occasional sleeples night. Once in a while I catch myself roaming the omnipresent websites, subconsicously checking for job offers and requirements. It's bad, really bad. The past couple of years wouldn't get me anywhere if that became forcefully necessery in the future. Not enough hours here, current airplane not heavy enough there and so forth. Relax buddy, right now you have a job, and you like your job. Do I? Sure I do. After all, this is and will always be my first real airline job. No matter where you go, you'll always keep a specal place in your heart for that first airplane that actually paid good money. At least that's how I see it. I still remember how proud I was after completing the typerating and doing touch and go training in a real passenger plane. That first flight with the farepaying public onboard and the words of my instructor captain "..it's your first flight so you might as well do your first PA too". And while one part of my brain was playing the memory movie the other was thinking about career perspective, upgrading, money, job security and stability. A tap on my shoulder ripped me out of my thoughts. "Hey Worldpilot, haven't seen you in a quite a while"... it was a former colleague, commuting to his new job at Yellow Jacket Airlines, stopping by at his former employers crew lounge. A not so valuable coffee but even more valuable information exchange later I pressed the send button of Yellow Jacket Airlines' online application. Oh my...am I ready for this? Well if I don't give it a try I'll never find out...