Originally Posted by
airscout
Personally, I think it's never a good thing to put all your eggs in one basket. Diversify. Don't be one of these people with no fallback career/education that has to accept whatever crappy offer their airline/job extends to them.
I clipped this out of the larger post for emphasis because at present it's a regret that I'm feeling very strongly. If I was qualified to do anything else in life that allowed me to make close to what I currently make flying my flying career would have ended sometime in the past year.