Each student leaves the institute with private, commercial and CFI certificates as well as instrument and multi-engine ratings. Financial fortune is certainly not the principal motivating force to those who decide upon a livelihood earned aloft. Neither are comfortable and secure working conditions logical factors. By its very nature, flying serves the schedules of others. Working pilots seldom know what the next few days will bring.
Personal schedules yield to the demands.
Neither are there guarantees of a secure workplace. The sky is an environment alien to the nature of humankind. Situations to test your skill, knowledge and judgment often arise. Nonetheless, those individuals who receive the compulsion to work the sky are willing to exert any effort, endure any hardship and bridge any obstacles to further their dreams. We need pilots now.