So just throwing this out there, i know how terrible conditions and pay may be for many guys, but i think it is just who you know and where you end up. Just HOW you get there after all the ratings is even worse, and if having connections will still be there.

So i am training right now at Utah state university. working on instrument. great instructors, bad ground class. bad 'college' experience so far.

I am just so frightened from what everyone says about this industry, i mean i love flying. But what i am just freaked out about what would my social life would be like. it already sucks now because i haven't really made any friends in college, and it seems like i wouldn't really make any in the industry. Fear of losing my medical, maybe 5 or 6 years into the industry, no backup, having nothing else to turn to i am basically screwed.

So what would make you feel that this industry isn't meant for you? What will make you stop? What gets you motivated to get up, and smell the coffee?