You could have ended up as TCT's luggage carrier
Well, I've paid my dues with luggage, I started my career working airline baggage.
I do some advanced training for newer pilots, and I choose my clients. For the right person, I'll haul luggage - 'cause they would equally haul mine! It's about doing the job which needs to be done, without whining, or seeking accolades for it.
I've learned, the not so easy way, that some pilots just do not [yet] have what it takes to handle a more advanced 'plane, or flying environment - or worse, both together. I have had to tell a few pilots that they did not have what it took, while wondering about how they got this far. My job might have been to train them, but sometimes it was just not going to work out - they just did not get it, or would not take it seriously.
I know only of TCT what I have read here, but my experience tells me that she would be an "avoid" for advanced type training. I would not be available to carry her luggage.