Thank you both Ziggy and Ewflyer for good answers with points and for keeping the level high and I mean it. I am not being sarcastic in any way.
It shows that you have both a great attitude even if you disagree with others opinions.

I am the first to admit that there is no better training than 135 IFR single pilot night operations. It makes you a hell of a pilot in short time but it can also give you bad habits for life.

Now, I do not talk about 135 pilots that are paid 40K and above. All that is really rare. Most pilots in 135 I know fly PA-31, Chieftan, C-421, C-310, AC50 or any other light twin without radar, autopilot or any other helping stuff and most of them are paid 18 to 28K per year for sometimes working all night 5 days per week. I have never met any C-310 pilot that are paid even close to 40k and if you are then Wow! I understand that you both are satiesfied with your salaries if you are in 40K and above but you both are not the general example of the 135 salary or equipment. You are however at the top of the 135 salary and will never be able to make above 65K no matter how many years you fly cargo in light twins but a regional pilot that upgrades to Captain will eventually make much more. Not many are at the 135 level that you guys are at and it takes for most pilots a lot of years to get there if they ever. I worked in a company that paid 1700 per month the first six months for you working 10 - 12 hours night shift, loading, unloading many times per night, freezing your as of, pressuring you to fly in the worst conditions etc for less than $8 per hour. That is for me abuse and I believe that most of the pilots in 135 operations are or have been in simmilar conditions.

If the 135 operators wants to survive they will have no other choice than take the left overs, meaning the pilots that do not get in to the Regionals. The salaries at the 135 may be better for a few pilots but the conditions are terrible and most Commercial pilots fly because they want to get to the airlines. Very few dream of being a "freight dog". Even back in time when I was flying 135 in Texas people saw the 135 freight pilots as a bit strange personalities and I heard a Chief pilot (in a charter company) give a coment once like "no wonder he is a freight dog" about a pilot he did not think so high of and that was attending his ground school. I do not share those values but what I mean is that it is not the regular dream to be a "freight dog for life" while being a passenger Airline pilot is the most common dream around and if you work as a freight dog you should not be abused but paid well like Ziggy and Ewflyer are. Sadly very few 135 light twin cargo pilots are. I am actually defending the rights of the 135 light twin cargo pilots in general and also my opinion if taken the right way would help the 135 type of operation to survive. If the 135 operators do not change the view they have about their light twin cargo pilots and do not increase both salaries in general and conditions they will all soon (much sooner than most are aware of) be out of business.