Originally Posted by
MarkVI
Cry me a river -- EVERY skilled career, be it a doctor, lawyer, or airline pilot starts out at the bottom of the compensation ladder with the worst quality of life. Stop acting like aviation is somehow more sacred than the intern prescribing your grandmothers medicine. How many hours has that intern worked, how many orders have they filled, and how many reports do they have to write for their resident? And what's their compensation?
No, docs have it better. Residency is long hours and low pay, but it's short and finite and at the end you instantly go from regional FO pay to major widebody captain pay at age 30 and you stay there for 30 years. (And if you get tired of your widebody captain job in ABC you can get a new one in XYZ in a couple weeks.)