[singpilot]

22 years old. Graduated from college. Go to military flight school.
Become hot shot fighter pilot. Get married.

25 years old. Have 1st kid. Now hotshot fighter jock getting shot at in
war. Just want to get back to USA in one piece. Get back to USA as
primary flight instructor pilot. Get bored. Volunteer for war again.

29 years old. Get back from war all tuckered out. Want out of military.

30 years old. Join airline. World is your oyster.

31 years old. Buy flashy car, house and lots of toys. Get over the
military poverty feeling.

32 years old. Divorce boring 1st wife. Pay child support and
maintenance
while looking for 2nd wife. Drink lots of booze and screw around while
looking for 2nd wife.

33 years old. Repeat above for a few more years.

35 years old. Marry young spunky 25 year old virgin flight attendant.

37 years old. Buy another house. Gave first one to first wife.

38 years old. Give in to second wife to have more kids. Father again.

39 years old. Now a captain. Hooray! Upgrade house and buy boat and
even flashier cars.

42 years old. 2nd wife runs off with wealthy merchant banker but still
wants to share house (100%).

43 years old. Settle with wife # 2 and resolve to stay away from women
forever. Seek a position as a Check Captain to have something to do.
Move into 2 bedroom apartment.

50 years old. Meet sexy model on International trip. She loves you and
says you are very "beeeeg!"

51 years old. Marry sexy model. Buy big house, boat and upgrade cars.

52 years old. Sexy model wants kids (not again). Resolve to get
vasectomy.

54 years old. Try to talk wife out of kids, but presto, she's pregnant.
She says she got sick after taking the pill. Accident, sorry, won't
happen again.

55 years old. Father of triplets.

56 years old. Wife #3 wants very big house, bigger boat and very flashy
cars. You give in.

57 years old. Make rash investments to try and have enough money for
retirement.

59 years old. Lose money on rash investment and get audited by the IRS.
You have to fly 100% International night trips just to keep up with child
support and alimony to wife #1 and #2.

60 years old. Wife #3 (sexy model) says you're too damned old and no
fun. She leaves. She takes most of your assets. You're forced to retire due
to age 60 rule. No money left.

61 years old. Now Captain on a non-schedule South American 727 freight
outfit and living in a 1 bedroom non-air conditioned apartment directly
underneath the final approach to runway 9 at Miami Int'l.

65 years old. Lose FAA medical and get job as sim instructor. Don't
look forward to years of getting up at 2 AM for 3 AM sim in every god-forsaken
town you train in due to the fact your carrier can find cheap, off-hours
sim time at Brand X Airlines.

70 years old. Hotel alarm clock set by previous FedEx crewmember goes
off at 1AM. Have heart attack and die. Happy at last!