I'm not trying to be a smart ass, but aren't you like 19 years old or around that age range?

You were a low-time hire at PSA correct? While most of us would applaud your determination, and most noticeably, your ability to pass a 121 training program at such a young age, aren't you missing out on just being a youth? No college, no nights out with friends drinking, hanging out, no real fond flying memories... just the thought of waking up in some hole of a town in the armpit of America, while your friends are nursing hangovers in Pysch 101, and planning weekend trips up to the mountains in the FBO's twin.

From what I've read, and seen, most of the 300 hour wonders are younger folks. 20-23 years old. They aren't really in it for the love of flying, or to be an aviator, they simply want to be an airline pilot. Forget about really learning to fly, and gaining those fond memories that actually made you an aviator. You know those white knuckle approaches into Nome, Barrow, or Kotzebue, Alaska at night with icing in an old, battered bush plane, spend 2 years doing that, build over 1800 hours flying the bush, by yourself, in the winter. Or the magnificent sunsets from a twin Otter on floats flying inter-island flights in the Virgin Islands, spend a year and a half doing that, building over 1000 hours of seaplane time and learning the ins and outs of flying an machine on and off the surface of the sea. How about having significant time teaching people to fly novice an complex aerobatics, where a pilot will really learn what it's like to fly by the seat of you're pants and use the stick, not needle-dick it around like some RJ.

People are so inclined to get to the airlines without ever experiencing flying at all. Is that really what you would call and aviator?

Not me.

I personally applaud the guys that stick around CFIing for longer than 200 hours. They aren't driven by the thought they may get to tell the hottie blond at the bar they fly jets for a living, but teaching the future of aviation. It's a noble task many are too short sided to even understand.

Just my 0.02