Folks I'll be the first to point out that as I haven't started with EK yet I am in no position to comment or offer an opinion on this line of discussion. However I would like to add one thought.
In the last few years I have worked as a packer in a factory, a taxi driver, a school bus driver, a labourer, a fencer, a coach driver, a maintenance assistant in a little flying school and a concrete agitator driver.
It is no fun at all. I'd rather be flying.