Chris, fair enough. Appreciate your view.
You do not earn a living as an airline pilot.
This job is not
for you and it does not appeal
you.
Everyone has different aspirations, and (thank god) we are free to choose our future.
I want to fly for a living, and am willing to accept the (very high) risks of this very high profile profession.
In my country,
on average airline pilots have higher wages then other qualified (and not less respectable) professions like eg engineers. I do however confess that I have not carried out any analysis of my assumption and this is purely based on coffee converstations. In other words, is rather worthless. Not sure how and where you are basing your own assumption.
Food for though, you need to study 3 years to become a qualified engineer (without a MSc) not to mention plus a few years in college. To become an airline pilot you need 1 1/2 years. If there was
no monetary benefits to become a airline pilot
everyone would become eg
electricians.