Probably the most useful thread I’ve found in a month and a half of searching. I was 22 in 2012, and the spirit of this thread (doom and gloom) was strong. I finished my degree and moved on. I just turned 28 and it seems like a historically good time to start (2012 would have been better but that was hard to foresee). Anyone want to re-evaluate their posts from years ago? Or is it like the one post said a few pages back, “After 20 years, it’s the same BS; great job, bad industry”?

I could do ten lean years (I’ll be 38). Including 2 years to get trained and hired, am I just another poor fool who hopes he might be able to be at a Major before I’m 40? My main reserve is, that while things look so rosy right now, I view this through the lens of 2012 (a career with a terrible future). But I just can’t shake flying, I love it, always have, I’m young and single and the days away from home in different US cities sounds amazing to me, international would be even better. You guys lived through it. Please, impart some wisdom! What do you think about the current state and future for a low-or-no-hour pilot? Are we at the crest now, or were the last two decades just painful flukes?