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I completely agree, but the airline life is pretty miserable for the first 10 years if not until you retire. Crappy schedules, crappy commutes, jump seating across the country just to get to your hub, over nights regularly in crappy hotels, 3 days on 4 off etc never really getting time off. Then the flying... completely pathetic... being an automated drone for the rest of your life... Then the long haul health issues from all the high altitude.

Still better than being 65 and waking up at 2 am to go land on a highway in crappy weather to "save" some drunk driver and get paid half the salary and no real retirement.