Originally Posted by
No Land 3
Find me a pilot who doesn't identify with their career choice. I've been dirt poor most of my working life and I found a good wife who stuck with me in those hard times.
I will never go back to being dirt poor and will always make the decision that brings in the money, even if it means family hardship. And I can tell you nothing is worse than having your career taken away from you, to lose your income, self worth, and means to support ones self. You are a flipping idiot if you let those things slip away, thinking it is better for the family! Have you ever woken up from a dream, and found life to be the nightmare? Try that for a few years.
Things in Our America are very negatively skewed because of the emphasis on money. There are plenty of poor people who are happy, and plenty of very wealthy people who are unhappy, because they want more money.
Note: I read here recently of a US pilot with a working wife. They moved from the US to Denmark, which has much higher income taxes than in Our America. They are both working in Denmark (as they were in the US), and they now have substantially more disposable income every month, than they did in the US. AND, their kids will all graduate from college, with ZERO student debt, which would not have happened had they stayed in Our America.