I'm quite sure no one will listen, (you guys never do on this forum,) but at the end of the day flying is just a job!! When you have done it for 15 years, believe me, you will be FAR more interested in what you are actually being paid, and what your terms and conditions are rather than "the love of the job". The trouble is, most non pilots or wannabes wont listen to the guys who are actually doing the job when they say that its actually not that great. At the airline I work for, (large UK based,) many many of my colleagues are looking to go and do something completely different outside the flying field. One guy who left the police to do fly instead dislikes it so much, he's trying to re join his old constabulary!!!