SkyHigh -

I was pretty sure that you would feel the need to answer my post - so I'll add something that I thought of later.

First though I'll address what you say above.
I refuse to believe that you could have been so negative about a career while you were flying and still say that you miss all the things you list above. There is no way that you would have survived that environment if you spewed forth such negativity in the ready room - or whatever they call it in the civilian world. Are you saying that you weren't always this negative and that you did, ONCE upon a time, feel like a majority of other pilots on this forum do? And yes - I said majority. I feel that you represent the vocal minority - who often make the most noise while the majority quitely go about their business without feeling the need to convert everyone to think the exact same way that they do. The mind set that it didn't work for me in my situation so it can't work for anybody.

If so....that brings me to my other point. Why don't YOU try something different and relate to the readers a POSITIVE story from the happier times when you LOVED your flying, LOVED your friends, and LOVED your dream. Can you remember those times SkyHigh? I'd like to hear them.

It isn't that I don't like what you have to say. Read the last line of my post. I'm entering into a career field that is back on it's heels right now. I want to know the bad. I want to know what I am getting into - BUT IT ALL CAN'T BE BAD SkyHigh. You have NOTHING good to say. I'm sorry SkyHigh - it just isn't ALL bad - no matter how much you want it to be or wish it were or for some reason want everyone else to believe.

Can you do it SkyHigh? Can you say something positive?

USMCFLYR