"George Z. Bush" wrote:
"Mike Marron" wrote:

Shows how much YOU know about professional aviation (try flight
instructing someday and enjoy having roadkill for dinner every night).
But hey, as bad as it was (and occassionally still is) flying damn
sure beats working for a living!

Funny you should say that. I know a guy who thought that way for the 15 ks a
year or so that he made flying those checks around in all kinds of wx. After
his accident, he kind of developed a different attitude about it. One of the
reasons was that he pretty much had to find some other way to buy the groceries
because he was devoted to eating, could no longer pass his flight physical, and
he couldn't get his folks to foot that kind of bill for him.

So now he's an RN and, aside from the seamier aspects of his job, like wiping an
occasional behind or two for patients who're too sick to do it for themselves,
he works twice as hard as he ever did when he was a heroic and adventurous
flyboy and earns three times as much and then some.

Not only that, but he sometimes mentions that his Mom and Dad still look on him
as a hero even though he no longer displays that "wild blue yonder" stare that
we old farts all tried to copy from the recruiting posters during those days
when our hearts were young and gay (in the old fashioned non-sexual sense).
(*-*)))

My wife happens to be an ICU/CCU nurse but you couldn't pay me enough
$$$ to do what *she* does for a living (urk!)

Great story George )