Thats one of the nicest compliments I've ever gotten. Thanks!

I can say that your sentiments are shared by my close friend at Continental. Even after the pay cuts and traumas, he's still in love with his job. Granted, though, his company is the healthiest of the Legacies. In his opinion, the industry has simply changed as the entire world has changed. He also told me that pilots have a tendency to whine. I suppose it's the old "A complaining (career field) is a happy (career field)". There are definently things that need to be worked out and the career cannot be cheapened too much as has been said. My close friend pointed out to me that the airline industry has always been an unstable one and that the starting positions were never ever highly paid. He doesn't hold any "scope animosity" towards the Continental Express pilots either. My friend never worked at a regional, but he did move to South Dakota and spent a time doing cheap turboprop charter work, before being hired to the the Air Force Reserve, and then going directly to Continental after 2 years of training. I know what you mean about regular work. I'm in college and I HATE doing my calculus homework and sitting through classes on stuff I don't care about. And to top it all off, my parents have to pay them for the privilege. At least at my job I get paid to do less stressful work (except during the holidays).

One of the first things I realized when I became an adult is that money does not equal happiness. Doesn't mean I'm willing to work for peanuts my entire life and it also doesn't mean I wouldn't love to be a millionaire. In a realistic sense I just want a more-than-livable salary with enough left over to own a small airplane. I have no desires at all for a family. I actually can't stand most of my family and don't see what good having one of my own could do. lol