However, the difference may well have been in the way he was paid. Salaried!
A tad harsh, Whirls! Not all freelancers are looking at the mighty buck.
There are always one or two like that, agreed. Strangely they are generally the ones that students seem to come and chat to you about, usually in the context of not flying so much with them anymore!
Student pilots often have that uncanny knack, like small children, of being very perceptive of motive!