Originally Posted by Airhoss

I was a firefighter early in my flying career. I enjoyed the fire fighting but hated the EMS work. I know quite a few pilots who were cops or firefighters either previously, currently or are trying to become one now.

I was talking with an industrial psychologist just other day who mentioned that pilots, cops and firefighters all have the same basic types of personalities and that the jobs all have the same types of stresses and rewards.