teaching in the USA, it is not easy anymore since the TSA checks schools documents!
winbar, you say your family don't speak to you anymore, what the hell they think?, because you are a pilot, you would fly a MD11 and buy them a house with a swiming pool?
I have to explain to my parents(now retired), it is not because you have an university degree and/or a flying license that suddenly airlines will run after you...nobody will run after us,...
1975 is behind us! times have changed!