Could not agree more! If they offered m ten million I still don’t think I would do it again. But at that time, at 18 and knowing everything, I just knew it would be an adventure and actually believed my recruiter- who told me i would be an AT but ended up a BT-only one letter off!
I knew a bunch of AT’s who would have swapped some of their flightdeck adventures for a bit of that blackshoe duty.