Originally Posted by
Cubdriver
A better question in my opinion is why are you leaving a good job for a worse one? Smitten with the romance of flying? You would have to truly miserable and hopeless where you are for that move to make much sense. I would think real hard on that decision. Flying at the low end of the market is as much a daily grind as anything, there's less money to take home, and by the way you are not going home you are going to a hotel room again.
I'm coming up on the five year anniversary of when I walked into my engineering manger's office and gave my two week notice. I was a newly minted commercial pilot, and only had a job offer to sit behind the desk of a flight school 2,000 miles away while I finished my CFI. It was a terrifying decision, but I'm a MUCH happier person now. I don't regret it at all, and so far things have worked out ok.