What wonderful encouragement you are
Deathcruzer, you have upset me twice now with this thread appearing, I am a 21 year old trainee just about to complete my final 14th exam and due to start CPL shortly after.
I find that you have some valid points about flying, however others on this thread ( and I don't think I am alone here) do not appreciate your cast iron view that all in aviation is crap, bad, not worth while in me, my parents, family, friends, investing their time, money and effort into.
I have no doubt that flying has changed since the days of smokey old Trident's and VC-10's, but it's not completetly gone to the dogs.
I have mates doing law and Medicine who are very interested by my flying pursuits, I wonder if their Consultant's and Law professors openly say on forums how bad things are and not to bother, do something else.
I appreciate the aviation world isn't perfect, but neither is modern day society, people in general have very little respect for anything these days, sad to say (yes most are of my generation.)
BUT it's not what others think, it's what I hold to be dear to me and have done for years that counts, - YOU should be promoting the profession of Airline Pilot, not slagging it off.
"If they knew how much fun it is, they wouldn't pay us a penny." Said a certain 737 Capt with nearly 35 years up there, I wonder if he shares your down beat centiment............