Excellent post, Bluebaron. Even more relevant for people like me, who are already earning considerably more than the average salaries you quote.
But the idea of spending another 35 years or more of my life stuck behind a desk 5 days a week is too much to think about. Sometimes, doing what you really want to do with your life takes precendence over money.
Now, here's an interesting point (trying not to take the subject too much off track). Every poster so far on this thread has agreed with you, Bluebaron. But if you were to start a thread suggesting people should be expected to pay for their own type-ratings, you'd get shot down by a barrage of angry posts. So why is it we all agree that we're in it for the love of flying, and not for the money - yet when someone suggests we spend some money so that we can fly, we get so irrate?
Just curious...
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