Airline Pilots: Is Anybody Interested in Being One?

[Nikia]

45. My sister's fiance is a pilot

After they had been dating a few months, he told her that he wanted her to understand that he was not a rich pilot and probably never would be. He pointed our all sorts of upper middle class luxuries and said that they would probably never have that and wanted to make sure that she understood that. He isn't paid middle class wages.
In contrast, my husband's uncle, who has been retired as a pilot for 20 years, has two homes. One is in Florida. The other is in Wisconsin. He belongs to country clubs in both states, with the one in Florida costing over $50,000 initiation fee.
When you are paying people much less, you can expect the average candidate quality to go down. No one should be shocked by this.