About the boring video thing...

Take my job for example...

I am an IT Analyst for a commercial real estate company... Can you imagine watching me answer phone calls in my cubicle, make changes to the network on my computer, fix peoples issues over RDP, etc from a video? Talk about boring. But as papatango269 and others have said, the video doesn't tell barely ANY of the story. Watching video of a takeoff, and being at the controls during takeoff - 2 completely different things. Same thing with seeing pictures of sunsets from the air... Doesn't even come close to the live image while you are standing on a mountain or looking from the cockpit window. Money ain't everything, neither is a big house, fast car, whatever... Experiences are way better than THINGS. It is nice to have a decent clean place to live, and a reliable nice car.. But I'd rather drive the Honda and love my job than drive a BMW and hate my job... I think in 5 years the airline industry will be very different from the one we know today. Good, or bad, the low pay and fatigue cat is out of the box... so we shall see. But at least you got time to establish yourself in a different job, make some money, maybe earn some ratings... And if they start hiring again (and they will), then you have a head start with less debt...