relationships and aviation

Speed Pilot said:
Good on you if that's what you want. Just remember aviation, like everything else will turn into just another job at some point. A cool job? Hell yes! But a job. It's really nice to have a life outside of work that I can share with someone I care about. A life afforded to me by my cool job. I can always find a new job. I can't find someone to put up with my quirks and share this life with as easy. For me, if I thought my job was getting in the way of my realationship, I'd walk away in a heartbeat for one that would let me keep the people I care about in my life. People are what make life worth living, not posessions or coolness factor. Just my opinion though. Peace, Love and Hippies everyone.
Click to expand...

It is important to have people you care about in life, together with a career that brings out the best in you. That in my opinion, makes you a complete individual. It doesn't take marriage to make life worth living at all! I am not trying to play devil's advocate here, I am just expressing my honest opinion on relationships and marriage and that it is very over-rated.
 
Yeah, being a pilot is much tougher than those other careers out there on a marriage. My wife is home so much more as a doctor than I was as a pilot. Oh, never mind that part. But interns get paid big bucks after shelling out all that money for medical school. Oh shoot. Never mind that part too. Oh, oh. I know. Doctors are home for birthdays and anniversaries. Oh... crap. Forget that part of it. Okay, someone remind me- why is being a pilot so much tougher on a marriage than other careers?
 
Eh, not a full time pilot right now but working in aviation and working my share of odd hours. Long as my wife knows what's going on, she's cool. Working a full day in the hangar and then doing a flight lesson in the evening gets kinda long, as does working 6 or 7 days a week if you count the flight lessons I'm doing, but we'll take it easy in the winter.
 
ATPCHASER said:
It is important to have people you care about in life, together with a career that brings out the best in you. That in my opinion, makes you a complete individual. It doesn't take marriage to make life worth living at all! I am not trying to play devil's advocate here, I am just expressing my honest opinion on relationships and marriage and that it is very over-rated.
Click to expand...

I'll agree with you on this. It seems people tend to put way too much emphasis on marriage, like you can't have a fulfilling and satisfying life without it. I have quite a few friends who are either divorced, separated, or are unhappy in their marriages. Does this mean all marriages or relationships end up like this? Of course not. Yes, it's true that flying airplanes is just a job and gets old after a while. But something tells me that in many cases people may tend to view marriage a little bit like some people view a career in aviation in the sense that they think it will fulfill them in some way and then end up disappointed when their expectations are not met. I guess my point is that the older you get and the longer you do something, what ever it is, it gets old.
 
moxiepilot said:
I think the second reason is having a support network. Do we both have people to keep us company while we are away from each other? Are there others to help us when normally we would support each other in that situation?
Click to expand...
can you expound a bit on this? are you talking about family and friends?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top