Has it occured to you that some of the people you are referring to (about whom you in fact know little) have "f***ing done it", are speaking from their personal experience and have spent considerable parts of their life anywhere but an armchair
Obviously. From perusing these forums on a regular basis, yes one does easily conclude that a number of users are in fact fairly well informed / educated and have 'been there and done it'.
However, one can also conclude that a number users quite enjoy demoralising others using various tones of condescending diatribe.
Apologies if I seemed ignorant in my previous post, it was not my intention. I just detest the pesimistic attitudes that so frequently riddle perfectly good natured threads on here (Get used it I hear you say!? This is PPRuNe!).
I guess Mr Gates, Branson, Sugar et al, to name but a few were all p*ssed on when they were starting out.
SS600 - (Officially eating his own words - sorry couldn't resist rising to it!)