Can't promise you will live the dream if you get out. Can promise you won't if you stay in. I looked up at an empty Middle Eastern sky enough nights alone to say "..as God is my witness if I can get out of doing this again I will..." Its been a good ride since. I bailed in 2002, while the 9/11 ashes were still smoldering...and it worked. I cannot promise rainbows and skittles, but I think things are a lot better now than then for a future in the airline business...