don't get me wrong, I'm an airline junkie, but when you take into account QOL, no social life, weekends, holidays from home....virtually 1/2 your life on the road, even more than that if your reserve, having to commute or relocate to a hub in order to not have to commute, then you add in low pay, constant fear of furlough, hoping and praying for the day you build enough senority to upgrade to CAP, only do that long enough to go onto a major and go through the same process all over again. Only difference, at the major, you're flying medium body carriers, and the FO pay is much better. It's not glamorous at all, and it seems like you really do have to be willing to sign your life away for a large fraction of your life.