Or even worse. How about all of those 14-15 year old kids who grew up on a farm or family business and work 12 hour days, 6 or 7 days a week. One difference is that they don’t complain as much as pilots do. We get paid well and work in a comfortable, low stress environment. We have it so good that one of our biggest threats is boredom, complacency, and actually dozing off. Laying on the sarcasm pretty thick (a clue for the sarcastically challenged), but we get paid for what we know and what we can do when we have to. The normal day to day operation isn’t that big of a deal. Working an unaugmented 8 hour Atlantic crossing isn’t exactly the most demanding or exhausting task one can accomplish. 3-4 leg days on the narrow body fleet get pretty long too, but it still isn’t the end of the world. If complaining about monitoring the automation on an oceanic flight, especially with CPDLC, is what we are upset about, life is pretty good.