Well, my prior life was a desk job as a customer service rep for a major home phone provider that I had for 11 years. The job itself stunk, so I love regional flying a heck of a lot more(being on reserve, I keep thinking, at my old job I would've loved to have gotten paid to sit around and watch TV, but now I'm dying for that phone to ring and get called in...so I find it a good thing that I actually want to work...which wasn't the case before).

Now taking this job, I had to take a 50% paycut, but figured I am still making a little more than when I 1st started out with my old job, plus in 2 years(hopefully) I'll even out to what I was making before(and eventually surpass it).

So I love the job, just waiting for the pay to get better.