Originally Posted by
KRH270/12
Well, when i was in my early twenties, people where impressed when they found out that i was a Pilot and allready on big jets... the Girls loved it, plus i had more money than all of my friends.
Now, 20 years later, people feel sorry for me. They consider the job hard labour, badly paid with a catastrophic work life balance.... wich is not true in my case, but i leave them in their disbeliev. But now some of my friends really make big money in banking or IT....
Most of my school friends of my age have retired already, because they could afford to. The ones that didn't choose aviation for their career, that is.
The one friend who did go into aviation at the same time as myself had to retire for health reasons - from stress.
Before anyone makes smart comments about why I still work; I'm still with my first wife of well over forty years.