Ignore the other stuff, such as paychecks, perks, working hours,
Dragonator, the naivety of you young bucks astounds me.
$4M for an apartment, are you kidding me, maybe if you are single, but try having a family in that. Most of you aren't thinking about the future, you only care about how you are going to pay for your next playstation game.
You need to realise this industry is very much seniority driven for most decent companies. You can't just leave and go to the equivalent position somewhere else at the drop of a hat.
As for your 'passion', I can tell you flying small aircraft is a hell of a lot more fun than airline flying, where you'd be lucky to have your hands on the controls for 5 minutes each sector, the rest of it is SOP, SOP, SOP. Unfortunately GA flying doesn't pay well. So if you are all about passion and don't care about the paycheck, you should be looking for a career in GA my friend.
