Thanks for the good words. You have a fair point that there are many ways to throw money at a university with little to no potential return on investment, a flight-only degree being one of them. There are few lousy degrees, however, that are comparably as expensive. I'd encourage anyone to continue building a marketable skill on the side, even if it's only a hobby they enjoy. I was incredibly restless at the airlines because after upgrading to captain, I was learning at a glacial pace, but working on the finance degree and interning for a commercial real estate firm kept my brain occupied in other ways that I enjoyed. That's not to say flying isn't a worthy challenge, because it's highly regimented nature demands much from the professionals, but it exercises a different part of the mind.