Originally Posted by
de727ups
"In that capacity I am not here to be a sad sack and ruining everyone's state of denial...."
Oh Please. When will you learn you have no right claim that everyone sees the career from your shoes.
Not everyone needed to have five kids and live in a small central Washington town with the strong desire to be home every night. You have mentioned on this site before that you'd not consider Southwest airlines as a worthy job because they didn't have a base in the Northwest. Sky, you put so many roadblocks in your path to being a happy pilot you were doomed to fail.
I'm glad you post, though. It gives people an idea about how not to pursue the career....
What some see as road blocks other see as the necessary elements of a full and happy life. Home, friends, hobbies, family, a wife and children are all important essentials I was not willing to compromise.
I have seen other pilots intentionally avoid finding a spouse move across the country in purist of a slightly better job and then wonder why at 40 they are not married and still do not own a house.
It is one of my main complaints about the profession. There is little room left for a pilot to develop a healthy life outside of the job. As pilots we are expected to drop everything and drag the family all over the continent following the career. There is not enough pay nor enough time off.
In the past a young pilot would get hired at their dream company while still young enough to endure the hardships. By the time the wife and kids came along hopefully they were senior enough to be past all the sacrifices. Now they just keep coming for decades.
It almost seems like a guy now has to be single to make this career work.
Skyhigh