Usually people show a lot of interest when they hear that I‘m a pilot. And I heard all the stereotypes. „Oh, but you are wearing glasses, is that allowed?“, „But you are just a Co-pilot?“, „I believe the training took you about six or seven years?“, „But you don‘t do anything anymore, right? You just have a button for takeoff and one for the landing?“
And most people believe I don‘t work a lot and do maybe one ore two flights a day with a nice break to have a dinner in the city.
But I have never met anyone who was disrespectful. In my opinion it is more that people seem to still admire pilots for what they are doing. But I don‘t walk around and tell people that I‘m a pilot, I only tell it when they ask me.