Good posts.
MikeLewis, you are right that I would be sat at my IT desk sulking that I wasn't flying. Thats the sad thing. The
flying is what you miss (but only when its not pouring down and theres no CB's and its not your fourth early in a row or your sixth ILS to minima and the aircraft is working and its not 43 degrees C or minus 43 degrees C on the ground and the ATC's are understandable and that...)
Once you have committed all that time and effort and cash to training yourself, you are also more reluctant to admit "defeat".
That job at the major major couldbe just round the corner and then life'll be OK anyway.
They say the grass is greener because theres more manure there
It's like the apple in Eden...once you bite it...
I have to say though, I work with a great bunch of well-motivated and interesting people, and get to spend a lot of fun time with them too, which is also better than listening to whingeing users about how there's been an abend and can I help them? Not to say we don't whinge!
Aircrew make an
art out of whingeing, its really funny sometimes, and there's no shortage of targets either...