Skyhigh, Some of your points are valid. Nurses do make really good money, I know a girl who is a nurse in ANC; she has been a nurse for about 3 years and she makes around 70k( I think she said 73k, but not for sure). This girl also works only three days a week/12hrs a day. Its a great gig, if you dont mind wiping some guys butt, giving sponge baths, and preforming other gross duties. Being a nurse is definently not for me. The other stats you stated dont come without a huge price. You talk about how hard it is to go on a four day trip when you have a family. Well let me tell you this, being an union electrician is a great job; however, there is no possible way an electrician would make 95k a year without working tons of overtime, every week all year. Personally, being on a 4 and 3 would be better for a family life than working 75-80 hours a week all year. I would say that the same goes for your cousin, I would bet that he spends more time being a deputy sherriff than being at home. I see exactly why you did not make it in aviation, your attitude sucks. If your attitude now is the same as it was when you were a pilot, its a no brainer why you did not make it. To be an airline pilot you have to have a true passion for aviation. I agree that the first couple of years of regional pay is not very good; but if aviation is your true passion than it should not matter. If your real passion was aviation you would have stuck it out. If you dislike aviation so much, why do you spend so much time on here posting your comments? Are you really trying to open the eyes to future pilots? Or are you jealous of our future pilots living the dream that you never reached?