Pilots love to loose themselves in the adventure and "fun" of an aviation career and often forget that a career is also a business venture and needs to be evaluated as such.

The cost of training, experience building and education requires one to seek a satisfactory form of return in order to justify the price of entry. If you are comfortable with earning less than the neighborhood mail man after spending a fortune to get there due to the convenience of the job then you really are doing yourself no favors.

Moving and sacrificing is no fun but it is required if your intentions are to make an actual living and hopefully to eventually prosper as a pilot. The time to do that is while you are young and unattached. We are all duty bound to push to the higher level.

The other guys are your competition and they are upgrading in RJ's and fighter jets. If you allow QOL issues to numb your motivation so early in your career then you might as well concede yourself to a life of regional mediocrity from the start.

SkyHigh