Good aviation news?
Well it mostly depends on where you were born.
Let's take an example: you were born in western europe. No good news sorry.
You were born in China and are a pilot wannabe: excellent news for you, you won't even have to pay for your training and will be airline CAPTAIN within 4 years after your CPL when still in your twenties... Maybe TRE/TRI before you reach 29 years old and will owne 2 or 3 appartment already...
It seems you are from western europe: too bad then. At 29 years old you'll most likely be begging for any job at mac donald's that might allow you to start to reimburse your huge debts.
Pudoc:
Forums are doom and gloom in general. Been a member of many different ones and it's full of negativity. Mainly because people aren't interested in good news. There was some report somewhere that said humans that aren't involved in the situation (everyone on here are involved so let's take Joe Public) like to hear bad news.
I have read about the famous studies proving the pessimistic persons have a much more accurate view of the reality than the optimistic ones (pessimistic realism), while this is true the optimistics are more likely to succeed.
Conclusion: listen to pessimistic persons if you really want to know the truth, and be optimistic in your life.
I am telling you that concerning western Europe pilot is a career for casino high risk players, and in the world the low cost airlines pilot (the ones that are the most common nowadays) will disappear within years (before even you can retire) due to the oil price that is going to boom.
And I am not known around me as a pessimistic person...
That is, the more pessimistic someone is, the more likely they are to suffer from depression. Depressed people are actually much better judges of reality. For instance they are better at judging when something they are doing is useless. So the more realistic someone is, the more likely he or she is to become depressed!
Surely there is a down side to optimism? Well, not really. The only likely harm of optimistic thinking is when we use over-optimism to shield ourselves from reality. Optimists tend to overestimate the likelihood of success so unrelenting optimism is not a perfect solution. Therefore it is better to be pessimistic in the planning stages but optimistic at most other times.
Depressive realism:
The French philosopher Voltaire's classic 1759 novella Candide: Or, Optimism deals with this subject and can be considered an early exploration of this psychological phenomenon. The story is an attack on Leibniz's optimistic theory that ours is the best of all possible worlds, a philosophy that is espoused by the character of Professor Pangloss even though the events around him are presented as unambiguously awful. Much of the humour in the story comes from Pangloss's rationalizations of these miserable and cataclysmic events as he will not admit that even the worst forms of individual human suffering are not all for the best. His position is counterpointed later in the book by the character of Martin, a more depressive character whose pessimistic philosophy may not be any better for getting along with life, but his viewpoint is certainly the least deluded as to the reality of the world around him. Candide's own conclusion on the subject can be summed up in his utterance that "Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable."
In a nutshell: Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.