The point I am trying to make is that whatever it takes to be a pilot there are few restrictions left to entering the profession. Technology is making it so that traditional pilot skills and natural ability has been replaced by automation. Human resources has made it so that even pilots with coke bottle thick glasses can get hired. Tall or short fat or skinny you will be considered for a job.

In addition our society has evolved to the point where people will confidently pursue a frivolous profession the the name of personal satisfaction. People who live near the edge would never consider an endeavor that costs so much to get into and offer's so little in compensation. Aviation has become an all consuming pursuit similar to that of music and art majors. Competition is fierce and there are lines ten deep of pilots who are willing to do the job for less.

There is little that remains to suggest that pilots will be worth anything in the future. Pilots today are paid by what they will do and not for what they can do. It is sad. I can not continue to confidently invest myself or my families future into something that does not have a secure or valued future. Eventually airliners will be controlled from the ground and academy trained pilots with little overall experience will sit there arms folded for hour upon hour under the watchful eye of the camera. Hand flying will be a rare emergency procedure.

When I look to the future I do not have much confidence for professional pilots. I do not want to be poor. I do not want to spend my life on the road. I do not want to be laid off in my 50's and forced to go back to the regionals to start over at 18K because there is nowhere else to go.

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