It probably doesn’t help that my areas are pretty white, so most of our Genx cohort lived VERY blessed lives compared to the rest. They love to poormouth themselves and act like they had it rough, but even the pilots in the early 00’s that got furloughed all went into amazing careers around me.

One literally made a biz, sold it for millions, and then jumped right back in the cockpit to keep telling us horror stories about “you kids don’t know how fucking terrifying it is out there, when I was furloughed from delta I couldn’t find a job for a YEAR!!!!”