Only 4 years done in BA, 30 (or 35) left to go.
There is no way in hell that I will be able to work those thirty years at the current rate. I will HAVE to go part time, otherwise it WILL kill me. The reasons have been given by many others.
I'm saying this in my mid-twenties, and I am absolutely serious.
Something not yet mentioned anywhere is the number of pilots taking Open University courses. Maybe not going to other airlines, but changing career completely.
WANABEES LISTEN CAREFULLY: go to a good university and get a good degree in something useful.
I've always wanted to be a pilot, never anything else. To have realised my life time ambition has made myself, my friends and family so proud.
To feel how I do about my job, my company and my future now truly breaks my heart. As dramatic as it sounds, I can only compare the feeling with one of betrayal.