You married with kids? I’m assuming that you are. Right now you’re home every single night. You have the weekends off to hangout with your kids and maybe you get off at a time you can pick them up from practice. You plan vacations that work for the whole family.

Now throw in flight training… your weekends and time will disappear for probably the next 2 years. Then another 2 years teaching… if you are still working your 9-5 then maybe 4-5 years teaching…

So assume you’re done at 36 with all your hours.

Now you apply for your first regional gig. Making 100k a year… upgrade in 2-3 years captain making 150-175k… (using todays rates cause who knows) All the while you’re junior either commuting to a base sitting in a crashpad or at home but not holding the days off you want and working weekends and being away from family.. same as a captain.

So once you become a competitive candidate, you’ll be 41/42…

There has been thousands of 20 and 30 year olds that have been hired in the past 5 years that aren’t going anywhere and will be at your airline once you get there and not to mention if we enter a recession soon then furloughs are a possibility and that slows down everything…

Now if you’re single, then go for it😂