astro_junkie

My father was a pilot and briefly flew commercial passenger airlines. I remember he said he got bored with it quickly, because it was very automated and was more about serving the passengers' needs (meaning no fun flying or interesting trips, all very "point A to B" and monotonous). He switched to flying goods delivery trips (not sure what they call that type of flying) because it was smaller planes and no passengers to tend to. He said he much preferred it.

What type of flying are you most interested in? Do you worry you'll get bored?

I'm not sure actually, I'll have to ask him. We're in different time zones but I'll try to reply sometime soon. This was 25ish years ago though, so times were different too. He eventually moved on to an engineering career, but he said he never regretted the time he spent flying and hopes he can one day pick it back up as a hobby.