Longbow:
You just keep on doing what you enjoy.
Shame on anyone in the industry who treats you with disrespect.
I always try to be polite and informative to people who have questions.
For the most part they are really quite interesting and fun to talk too.
Strangely enough, I have found, most have no interest at all at becoming pilots or engineers or working in the industry at all.
I even met a guy who was a bus spotter and could ream off all kinds of specs on every bus used in GB.
Carry on Spotting. ( Soon to be a major Motion Picture starring Tom Cruise, Mel Gibson and an appropriately endowed Bimbo )
Cheers
Albatross