The grass isn't always greener....
From where I sit with family in aviation and medicine, things are going downhill for both professions.
Exploitation in early years as people crawl over broken glass competing to land that dream job.
Significantly greater responsibility that most workers will ever know - especially in an era when most people are doing all they can to minimise their professional responsibility.
If you make it (and many don't), yes there is significantly higher pay than average workers. This comes at a very high price however, and the Australian tax rates mean you quickly come to learn about the law of diminishing returns.
A job that is intrinsically rewarding per se, but which is becoming ever more difficult due to cost-cutting, ever increasing requirements for productivity gains, ever increasing public expectations, and an ever increasing regulatory burden.
Higher than average divorce rates - in addition to the emotional cost, a divorce will seriously erode whatever wealth you may have managed to build by your 40's or 50's.
Diminished respect by the general public - which does gradually erode morale and goodwill, and which assists our industries to drive down our T&C.
The ever present risk that a single bad decision could be enough to effectively end your career.
If you still believe the grass really is greener on the other side, comfort yourself in the certain knowledge they are turning off the irrigation on the other side as well.