Hey sky, obviously your current strategy of trying to dissuade young people TOTALLY away from this career is not really effective and makes you look and sound like a disgruntled former employee. So why not change up your strategy a bit? Here’s an idea: instead of discouraging people TOTALLY away from this profession why not try to help them find better ways and or better routes to this profession?
• Encourage people to not take out loans they can’t pay back
• Encourage going the mom and pop route instead of flying academies
• Tell them to start early due to seniority reasons
• Encourage military route
• Let them know the mistakes you made and how to avoid them
You have a whole lot of useful knowledge to pass on to the next generation of pilots, why not help them out? I think you might find it really fulfilling if you spent most of your time on the flight schools and flight training sections of this forum passing on very useful skills to the young and future pilots.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying sugar coat it, just try this strategy out for a bit, and if it doesn’t work out…