You guys are all right about the fact that being a pilot is a choice and it might not be clear to everyone who is looking to fly for a living how hard it is to start and how little bit of money you could be making in the beginning, however we have all paid a lot of money for our training which may be the mistake because it is not a good return on our investment in ourselves if we cannot pay back the loans or justify the amount of money we spent on this training, but this industry is due for some restructuring and I hope that there would be a way to bring positive change to our fellow pilots who are having a hard time starting up.

And as mentioned above we practically subsidize ALL of these low paid citizens one way or another with our taxes. I'm sure that many if not all 1st year pay FOs at the regionals could qualify for ALL of the government benefit plans which we end up paying for with increased taxes. We should shoot for high wages and not take it from the other tax payers. I actually looked into these benefits and I did qualify for them, however I refused to take it, but I just wanted to see where did I fall being an airline pilot which led me to slowing finding my way out of aviation since it seems like a pyramid scheme in a sense