Aah the innocent glow of youth.
and never will be about the money.
Come back to us when you have a mortgage, wife, kids, car and training debt from hell.
Flying as a job remains frickin awesome, and those that do it are witty and handsome chisel-jawed skygods, every goddam one of them. There does however come a time when alondside the feeling of how cool flying is, there arrives a feeling that your time and effort should be compensated adequately for the skill, responsibility and effort that you put in. The point of doing a job is to facilitate your quality of life. The belief that the job itself is the point won't last forever, and neither should it.