{"id":258,"date":"2017-11-15T16:01:35","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T23:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrischiesa.com\/wp\/?p=258"},"modified":"2017-11-15T16:04:12","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T23:04:12","slug":"money-or-qol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chrischiesa.com\/wp\/?p=258","title":{"rendered":"Money or QoL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;m in a quandary for this month.\u00a0 The company is paying 300% to pick up flying at the end of the month.\u00a0 I&#8217;m off for all of it, and the temptation to pick up flying is almost overwhelming.<\/p>\n<p>The pay is nice (I&#8217;d be making mainline pay) and if I can find a good trip, I could log 20+ hours in 4 days (and pickup 60+ hours of pay).\u00a0 I would miss Thanksgiving, but I&#8217;m not sold on doing Thanksgiving with the family anyway (especially if I can get Christmas off).<\/p>\n<p>Shake the money tree and earn some green or enjoy time off with family (or in Aruba where there&#8217;s palm trees and beaches but I&#8217;ll miss out on turkey)?\u00a0 Welcome to the airline pilot lifestyle I guess.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-258\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/chrischiesa.com\/wp\/?p=258&amp;share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-reddit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-reddit sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/chrischiesa.com\/wp\/?p=258&amp;share=reddit\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Reddit\"><span>Reddit<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-258\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/chrischiesa.com\/wp\/?p=258&amp;share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span>LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-258\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/chrischiesa.com\/wp\/?p=258&amp;share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;m in a quandary for this month.\u00a0 The company is paying 300% to pick up flying at the end of the month.\u00a0 I&#8217;m off for all of it, and the temptation to pick up flying is almost overwhelming. 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