It isn't that difficult to top regional captain pay either. There just isn't any logic to paying $150,000 in education and training expenses and four to five years in college to get a job that in ten more years pays less than what most apprentice plumbers make.

I have a theory that aviation is mostly comprised of spoiled middle class kids who in a vein attempt of avoiding real work end up compromising themselves. Ask any plumber what he thinks of the above sacrifices and he would turn white with fear and ask "why would anyone do that"? Most people don't care how fun a job is they simply wouldn't do it if the pay wasn't there.



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