As a guy on the outside I'm glad I don't feel most of those. There are days where I can come home and complain to my wife about some of the jobs most uninspiring moments. I currently work in management, which has a different degree of annoyance, typically personnel related so that's where the majority of my complaints come from.

When flying the majority of my complaints were about the hotels, but that was about it...while flying I know I really did dread the first day of the trip, the "monday"...as of right now I really love Friday's, Mondays' are still somewhat rough, but not as bad as knowing I was leaving home for 4 days and wasn't looking forward to who I was crewing with.

I've always been pretty even keeled, so balancing work/life is pretty important and my current employment situation allows that. I've been into motorcycling since I was doing flight training years ago, and my current job affords me a chance to commute to work on the bike, put on my suit jacket, and work for 9 hours before going home. I'm lucky to not take to much work home with me, albeit I bring home more on the management side of the house than I did on the workerbee side. My industry is still in demand (Defense) despite congress' inability to pass budgets, and I feel like I fit in with the hundreds of other pilots/navs I work with.

All in all, while i'm not in a cockpit fulltime, life's not bad.