You might be surprised by answers from "bus drivers".
A friend is a training captain at an international airline...
Before I started flying, I went to visit him, and over a glass of wine I asked if I should learn to fly helicopters or fixed wing, he first asked me the following question.
"Do you want to go from a to b, or do you want to learn to fly?"
I naturally said I wanted to fly, the challenge of it all, and all that.
His answer "Then go learn to fly helicopters"
He still drives buses, but will never pass up the opportunity to get behind a cyclic.