Originally Posted by
tizzizzailslf04
You are starting to miss the forest for the trees here. The point is pilots love to look down on these cleaners, customer service, baggage handlers, etc as uneducated when the reality is that many pilots have the exact same education level as many of them...a high school diploma. Or a college degree.
The biggest obstacle for most between stopping there and attending civilian flight school is MONEY. Yes, flight training is difficult and challenging, but lets not kid ourselves...it is NOT law school, or med school. The majority of the people you are looking down on, provided the resources you had, would have no trouble going to flight school and getting to the exact position you are in now.
Money is not the biggest obstacle, that's ridiculous. Ask my parents, they didn't have any. Ask the people in the financial aid office where I obtained grants and student loans.
I'm quite certain the skill set required to fly airplanes isn't something every human was born with. 3 years of flight instructing taught me that. It's possible some people aren't motivated enough to jump through the hoops airline pilots have had to jump through. It's possible some of us without money took a look around and decided there was a better future out there and figured out a way to make it happen.
Your premise couldn't be more ridiculous.