I would like to add that being an airline pilot is a JOB first and foremost. It is not like flying for fun. You are tired a lot. You spend loads of time in hotels, and you spend loads of time just WAITING. Waiting in airports, waiting on hotel vans, waiting in crew rooms, waiting crammed between bovine pax because scheduling didn't list you on your deadhead until the last minute. But before that, you will be waiting on students, and waiting and not getting paid while doing so. It's kind of anti-climatic, because getting all your ratings at some place like ALLATPs is a ballbuster.