Skyhigh,

When that day comes, I'll buy a luscombe and get a real job. There are other options out there than flying for a 121 carrier and I simply refuse to pay a company to work for them. I don't expect to jump ship from my flight school as soon as I hit 1000total and 100 multi. I'm waiting until at least 135 minimums simply to have more options available.

You paint a lot of gloom and doom, but there isn't a profession out there that you couldn't rip apart in the same fashion that you do of aviation. I know lots of people that are making good money and have all the nice things that money buys but they are miserable every day that they go to work. I don't want that, and if this industry ends up doing to me what it did to you I'll be long gone before I become as cynical.