raviolis wrote;
I mainly enjoy being in the air, soak up the freedom and look down at the silly buggers stuck in a traffic jam !
That's the real spirit! I have the same tought daily! I have many friends who finished up a few years ago aged 19 to 23 - they completed flight training in 7 months and next straight in the airline sim. If I see them today they sound like me when I had an office job over the last couple of years. Complaining about their hours, paychecks (!?), days off etc - they have no
clue what is out there in the real world and they seam already tired and ready for pension after only 10 years of being FO.
BTW I am 30 and fully ready for the big silver birds but it's a fact that I enjoy my life at my local airport, the flying and airport friends and the GA flying soo much that I sometimes doubt about the airline environment. I guess it's a balance you have to make.