My version:
A) What do you do?
B) I'm an Airline Pilot
A) Oh, wow fantastic (looks suitably impressed). Who do you work for?
B) Ryanair
A) Oh. (Now looks like I just told him I'm a kiddy fiddler).
In answer to the original question, I love my job but with the current situation with all these plebs paying to fly and destroying the lives of the rest of us then no I'm not proud of the profession.