Originally Posted by
ESQ702
If the main reason you want to be a pilot is your love of traveling and not a love of the job (i.e., flying), I’d reconsider this as a career if I were you. There are plenty of other ways to travel frequently.
Not necessarily. This job is one of the few which offers tremendous schedule flexibility to travel (in addition to nonrev bennies). Not an unreasonable motive, IMO better motive than money. Of course it's best if you like flying airplanes too.
The time off is really what enables travel. Work travel, not so much... you'll probably do a lot more ten-hour overnights in the Podunk Falls airport frontage road la quinta than 30-hour Paris layovers.