tailscrape
I agree with you hence the 'apparantley' bit.
It was in an interview with her that she bought it up. I told her I want to be an airline pilot, but in an ops controller interview and I think she thought I wanted the ops job as a stop gap, just get closer to the pilots and ops etc....so she came out with that comment (quite bluntley) to check my reaction (assuming I would say "erh, oh, I don't want this job then") but I remained nice and ripe so I think I passed that test, I just hope my assumption is correct, unless she was relating specifically to low hour pilots :S
Cheers
obk