I have my opinions to share and it sounds like they are not in alignment with yours. It does not mean that I have to be crazy or jilted. My aim here on this thread is to say that there is life after aviation. Not every job involves a cubicle. It is possible to find happiness and prosperity in other professions.

If you really are so prepared to become a doormat then I am sure that you will not be disappointed. Go out there and enjoy your career. All I am saying is that it is a life of sacrifice that offers an ever slimming chance at a decent fully funded life.

If you are comfortable with that and are prepared to live in a studio apartment at 43 then have at it. Enjoy your sunsets. Hopefully for you things will turn out better than it for for me or my friends. Sometimes I think that there is a point when the value of sunsets reaches an equilibrium with the cost of the profession and from that point onwards if there is nothing else to add to your compensation then the job becomes misery.

I have had my sunsets. Now I need to have a life.

Skyhigh