1. What is the best part of your job?
Varies, day to day, between flying and the people in EMS I work with.
2. What is the worst part of your job?
Cold, wet and windy preflights when I know I'm not going anywhere.
3. Any regrets in choosing your career?
I do have other interests.
4. How long have you been in it?
Since October 1968, less 10 non-flying years after Vietnam to "be normal" and 4 years in the late 1990s to be a stay at home full-time Dad.
5. If someone you knew was considering getting their commercial license, would you recommend it to them?
In for a penny in for a pound. If you must do it, you have to do it all the way.
6. What advice would you give to a multi-talented, low-time pilot with a couple hundred hours under his/her belt and few years' experience in the industry, potential for a family, and considering pursuing some other career instead of the glorified chopper pilot?
If you have a choice, take it. If doing the job isn't the reward in itself, there's not enough money to make it worthwhile.
7. Do you consider yourself successful? Why or why not?
Definite success. I did it. If it stopped 10 minutes from now, that first solo and all the rest would still be mine.