Young Paul
Flying aeroplanes or helicopters, that is.
hehe - I like the joke.
You seem genuinely happy with your lot - I admire your honesty and understand your point of view.
However, I can't help feeling that for most people (and I include myself in that) what you propose will remain great in theory but impossible in reality. The trouble is, life gets in the way. You know that saying "life's something that happens to you while your making plans". How true.
What about the myriad frustrations that come from management for example? How can pilots feel happy if their perception is that they're being worked unfairly, to the detriment of personal and family life?
Surely this is the question that the poll asks, quite sensibly and realistically in my opinion.