relationships and aviation

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.

Wait a second... I didn't think you'd met my wife and daughter.

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.

And they have impeccable timing.

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.

Brown chicken, brown cow?

And the random hook-ups in far off places....