If I'd worked out when I was 18 that I could get paid about 5 times per working hour what I'm actually getting paid (which is not a bad salary at all by the terms of the business I am in) then I'd have been there now.
Christep,
So you think it is just a matter of signing up, then your career is made. Please tell me you are not that ignorant.
Even in your business there must be failures. If I had a dime for every pilot that didn't make it to a decent airline job, got furloughed for years, washed out of pilot training or even worse, died doing what they loved; well I won't go there.
I know plenty of guys who made the decision to become a pilot at age 18 and at age 35 they still haven't made it past 50K per year. If you think just making your mind up is getting you anywhere in the airline business, I seriously doubt you would "have been there now".
Cider30