Congrats CO777Driver on your accomplishments in the avaition/airline industry. But dont be mistaken...there is absolutely nothing hard about becoming an airline pilot. Yes it takes a lot of time to study and train, but hard work? No. Its not hard work. Ive had 3 other careers and becoming an airline pilot pales in comparison with respect to how hard the work was. And I am not a brainiac or a prodigy...far from it. SkyHigh used to irk me on this site but the more I read, the more I agreed with him. As for me, I am out of the flying for a living business. It is a great job but a crappy career, as they say. I have found flying my little Cherokee suites me just fine. And, with my new career, I found that I made as much last week as I would have in one month with the regionals.