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Well I'm trying to look at the bright side being a prospective pilot. Surely you think the benifits outweigh the bad aspects or else you wouldn't be doing it?
Sure it's a pain being out at hotels at weird hours but all the time off without having to write reports and such must be nice, not having to take your work home with you.
But isn't it a case of, if you love what your doing, then everything else will fall into place? You do love the flying don't you?
Me personally, I think what pilots have to put up with is a million times better than having a office job, that would drive me nuts.
Are you really unhappy with what your doing or just idly complaining? Maybe you'd be happier as a corporate pilot Doug?
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Nah corporate aviation is, in a lot of ways, worse than the airlines because you may be part-91 and all of the rules and protections of part-121/135 don't apply. Plus, I wouldn't be comfortable with the ever present possibility that the company would sell the aircraft and utilize a fractional to keep costs down.
We don't have to write reports on our off days, but we do have recurrent training, 5 1/2 hour poorly written recurrent groundschool on a CD-ROM... We have way more bulletins and memos than the law allows (and many conflict with one another).
Some are funny like "If you have a control malfunction in flight, please be sure to follow applicable procedures while noting flight control deflection, airspeed, altitude, throttle position, level of automation and atmospheric conditions and include that in your report".