Bachelors to BSN is 16 months, one year critical care (paid), three years of CRNA (which pays six figures while you're getting certified). Full-time CRNAs earn $200K +/- $50K (or more) year, depending on what part of the country you live in. Easy $250K in the midwest. Plenty of money to exercise your PPL privileges.

So yes, six years-while getting paid well into six figures at the three year point. Home every night. Go to the right clinic or office, no nights, no weekends, no holidays.

Poopooing? This is the reality of being an airline pilot, regional or major, in 2021. The days of one-leg domestic wide body trips to the five star hotel on the beach with a "Cadillac-paycheck" every month, as is often portrayed, are loooong gone. Airline pilot is a grueling, unstable career. The non-rev benefits are nice, but not even close to what they used to be. As the highest wage earner at the company, pilots are almost always the "bad guy." Just ask AA management who's responsible for all of those cancellations this past weekend.