I therefore gave up and subsequently made the best of my second career, in which I have been modestly successful. Every now and then I get a chance to go up for a ride in a light aeroplane which I enjoy, but I know I would not enjoy current airline flying, for all the reasons that are aired regularly on PPRuNe.
As others have said - just make the best of what you now have. Good luck!
Exactly! You only live once! Why spend your whole life being tired, jet lagged, sitting in polluted (aerotoxic?) air, sitting in radiation, worry about the Flight Data monitoring office Nazis and having less and less
quality time to see wife children friends and family?
Wanna fly? You want to
really fly? Rent a Cessna 172 and leave the other 'flying' to the new generation of magenta line following button pushers willing to work for peanuts!