Originally Posted by EYELS

There come's a time when you'd rather walk your property line and water your tomatos than spend so much time on the road doing nothing productive in any sense of the word. It's the cumulative effect of just sitting around, not even being able to do a load of wash.

Unfortunately, many pilots are unwilling or unable to make the break because they're beginning to make okay money and can't change industry or careers and make similar money elsewhere because they have no other marketable skills. So, at say, 37 years of age, they're stuck looking at more than two more decades of dragging themselves from Point A to Point B, over and over, only to end the day waiting on airport transportation to haul them to another miserable hotel.

As you get older, and I don't mean when you've retired, you value your time more and more because the years go by much too fast. It's a no brainer that I'd rather spend time tinkering and puttering around my two homes, than to profess excitement at an 0530 continental breakfast at a Holiday Inn Express.