Originally Posted by
krismiler
In your 30s you're still young enough to change careers permanently or get back into flying when things pick up.
Whilst doing a career change to another professional occupation may be an option and a goal for some, it isn’t exactly a desirable path. 30’s is an age where after the early transient stage of the 20s a lot of pilots have hit the stable airline job with decent pay, have married, started a family, have a mortgage without much equity or other assets. Financially vulnerable.
To start another professional career (which most pilots would have the aptitude to do) would involve 3+yrs of university, and then entry level roles in that field which would likely be poorly paid. It would take a few years beyond that to start approaching their previous income level, in the meantime the struggles and pressures would occur. There’s really no easy solutions.