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...but then again - if you wanted a proper work/life balance you wouldnt have chosen to be a pilot.
The problem is when many of us embarked on this career, it did offer a reasonable work/life balance. Many airlines now drive their crews to the absolute limits of the regulations and beyond in some cases (or they just change the regulations where the airline and the governing body are essentially part of the State.) The co-pilot seat has become a revenue stream and not a place of reward and pride after years of honing ones craft with that seat as the ultimate goal. It has become a seat of economic ability, paid for by the occupant or by parents co-signing for a house sized loan and then the reality sets in. You are by design financially trapped in a job that is not what you hoped it would be or the general public imagine it is.
Last edited by flite idol; 10th May 2015 at 18:39.