Yeah in the end it's really pathetically not newsworthy. Heck there was an 18 year old in my new hire class at XJT way back when. I was as ambitious and gun-ho to get the career as he was at age 18, but thankfully my old man beat my @ss into getting the degree done first. The experiences and life I lived from 18-21 in college far surpass anything an early jump on an airline job would of rendered. Sorry if it sounds bad, but because of that I feel for guys who miss out on that in order to hurry into a paid jet job.