Me?
Driver (Airframes), left 18 months ago.....best thing I ever did!
I definitely miss the people in the Mob and the closeness that aversity brings - but I certainly don't miss the politics, back-biting and endless (and needless) triv.
I swapped my light blue bus driver's uniform for an orange one and couldn't agree more with Ming:
No paperwork, no reports
No tents in the desert
Home every night
See the family lots (for me, a good thing),
No jet-lag
Lots of appraoches and landings
No very long, boring cruises at FL nose-bleed with cruise pilots
Reasonable promotion prospects (not terribly high on my priority list, though)
but, most importantly,
I know what days I'm working for 15 out of the
next 18 months...maybe even longer.
The view from the office is just as spectacular and I work with some really great people (a lot ex mob). However, one might be tempted to say that the 'lunatics still run the asylum' but that is the same in
any line of work but, now, I can leave that at work!
For me, the grass is most definitely more lush but Rock Dove's advice of 'look before you leap' is absolutely spot on.
Oh, and no-one is shooting at me!