Haha, the guys at work have said the same about losing the missus, but so i can buy a house.
I've got friends from school that have gone about 'getting there' in a variety of different ways - one is second year FO on the B1900, one I has just left a GA job out of the Hawkes Bay to fly for ANZ (I think), one has started flying SO with CX on 747's for pittance and the other is up in PNG. All of them are loving it, unless they are lying, its what they/we all thought it would be, just without as much pay as we expected!