Originally Posted by
de727ups
"Dude, you are certainly proving one thing................an airline career is not for you!"
Skyhigh has told me working for Southwest was not a worthy job due to his personal situation with five kids, living in a little central Washington town, and wanting to be home every night. These are all strikes against a happy piloting career. If you can't deal with the pilot lifestyle, as some can't, and Skyhigh couldn't, it's best to go another route.
It is true I thought that an airline career was going to be the rock to build a full life upon. I expected it to possibly even improve access to family life.
Apparently it is supposed to
be your entire life. People need to know that. We are all here to learn something.
The pilot lifestyle: A disconnected, disenfranchised, lonesome, occasionally impoverished, and often expatriate, never ending life on the road.
Skyhigh