Originally Posted by
the King
If you can't save enough money as a Captain at a major airline and be comfortable, it would serve you right. I'd be happy to retire at 60, and you know what, at 21 I'm already planning for that day.
I wish you the career that you dream of. It doesn't happen that way for many of us. Just when it is that you plan on getting that left seat? What will you do if you lose it and then have to start over? Once, twice, three times? Sick spouse, sick children, a spouse that leaves and takes half of your well planned savings and retirement with him/her.
This is going to be hard to hear, but at 21 you have a lot of growing up to do and a long way to go before you can speak with any authority on what an airline career should look like. Life holds many unplanned suprises, I hope you manage to avoid all of them.