downgrading to helis
As chief corporate jet pilot in 1987, I talked the company into buying helicopter (not hard, bossfellah was addicted to flashy machinery and drove from left seat whenever on jet).
obviously (well, to me, and they bought into it) it would be needful to put me through fling-training. But I got it in my head that if i didn't START going to medical school at ripe old age of 45, I'd be too old (already was--details, details!). So I quit.
6 months later, tired of 20-hour days studying & trying desperately to keep up with the fresh-out-of-college crowd, I called Bossfellah: "Can I come back?" Yes. "Is the Helicopter deal and the raise still on?" Yes.
Talk about miracles! Call Ripley.
So I went through the Commercial (mostly spread around 10 different schools in places where we routinely did all-day standby--and hence my permanent preoccupation with standardizing the undisciplined instructional curricula).
And after deciding the A305 was the ONLY bird flashy enough and quiet enough to fit on BossFellahHorseRanch, the multiple vice-presidents (insurance company!) threatened to mutiny if their raises for next 10 years went into me and damn heli.
So we junked the heli project, and I had to wait until retirement to use my bountiful savings from FL 410 trips to buy R22 and have fun.
Corporate f/w, I must say, generally pays much better than rotor anything.