Well, I agree that a pilot is not a bus driver, and that you have to expect to walk out from a simulator for the last time every six months (something I experienced myself!). But all those individuals among us who ever had a good job with some degree of responsability outside the cockpit, all those who didn't just jump off the school into flight training, we all know: Life in the daily battle of the free market forces is at least as hard, pay is seldome higher and working conditions are much harder for sure. The only advantage of a white collar worker is that often he will not suffer from the error he is creating, he will just be fired, but he will survive.
Dani, airline pilot