I switched to IT for a few years after 2020 COVID redundancies. Salary was great. Job looked easy. But all these corporate pressures, sedentary lifestyle* and toxic management/colleagues… all bought up with me at the end of the day. I thought I would be more free with 9-5, but turned out to be harder than one would imagine. Unless you managed to secure that unicorn job… which is probably a compromise anyway like everything ticks but no professional growth.
* I don’t know how, but even more sedentary than flying.
Regarding the path into the aviation, I have to agree, there are just so many paid cadet programmes. It has never been so good. Competition is still insane, but a chance is better than no chance! In fact the only major issue with the aviation today is some of the hiring practices like bonding.
I am on a border of Millennial / Gen Z by the way, and didn’t finish the flight school previous century.