I know a lot of you here will be screaming about this statement, and I know that as an airline captain you have a lot of responsibility, but I flew offshore helicopters for years and that too is pretty easy. And it's a lot less well paid than airlines and the working environment is a lot less comfortable.
90% of the time it is easy. 9% of the time we earn our money and 1% of the time, there isn’t enough money in any bank for what we do. The decent salary is the “happy” medium to cover for the 1%.