"If you want to share your QOL and salary experience with them as a way to encourage entering this profession, you should also balance it with the negatives associated with entering it as well."

That's Skyhigh's job.

"Personally, I think that should be kept to one's self, but that is just my opinion."

When I make comments like that, they are DIRECTLY to refute a Skyhigh comment about how stupid we all are for being pilots. Take it in that context.

"but I'm not going to encourage someone to pursue this by showing them how much I made or how much or how little I flew"

Again, that's not what I'm trying to do nor were my comments in that context.