They are right, you know. I was going to jack it all in to do my ATPL, but saw sense. I would imagine I am taking home about a quarter of what you do a month.
Why not go and see a lifestyle guru, to see if there is a better balance to be struck, along the lines of less work/more flying/same money? How about working somewhere where you can fly to work? How good would that be. One of our local millionaires commutes almost daily in his 109 from the north of the Island to the UK.
You, as I, are a lucky man. Unfulfilled perhaps, but lucky.
STANDTO