No you have a clue, ass wipe fucktard doesn't. You've lived the life and can make an informed opinion. From my experience, I don't feel like an overpaid bored bus driver. I feel more like an underpaid, underappreciated professional. Both are valid points of view based on our respective experience.
Ass wipe fucktard has no experience. Ass wipe fucktard is merely ignorantly speculating.
There is a difference.
But you have to make a decision while still an ass wipe fucktard. The problem with experience is that you always get it right after you really need it.
I'm not an airline pilot, but some of my best friends are (this is the same opening I give when talking about gays, btw). It, and EMS helos, for that matter, are not jobs one does because of the joy of flight. They're jobs one does because the lifestyle is good. Airlines have good pay and benefits for relatively little work. EMS helos have great schedules--usually 7 days on, 7 off, not much flying, and a lot of watching Netflix while waiting for a phone call.
I am a law enforcement pilot, albeit under training for a short while longer. There are some departments that hire you straight off the street to be a pilot. The biggest is ICE on the fed side. Fed hiring is a long, painful process, but flying for Customs is the real deal, and the pay/bennies are all the sweetness that Uncle Sam is known for.
My department, Baltimore PD, has a T/O of 9 pilots. Currently we have a vacancy (anyone with 1400 R/W hours, please PM, BTW). Upcoming vacancies will come at the rate of the speed at which old guys retire, about 25 years/9. We make you go through the police academy (considerably less fun than the '80s Steve Gutenberg version) and field training in the city in patrol (what I'm doing now). Then you go to the aviation unit. A few other cities follow this model.
A few others, mostly departments in Florida and in central/northern California, as well as Ft. Worth (off the top of my head), hire pilots to work for their police departments as civilian employees of the city.
Most others view the helo as an airborne patrol vehicle and do some form of internal accession. A lot of them, like Baltimore County, attract National Guard warrant types, who are happy to fly in the Guard while working in patrol and waiting for a slot to open up.
The LE hours and lifestyle are not nearly as cush as the airlines or EMS, but the flying is legit. I've worked surveillance, tailed cars, done top cover for SWAT raids, etc, just in the short time I've been training here.
Most of the really cool flying in the world, other than overseas contract gigs (which merit their own discussion, and aren't a long-term career anyway) does not pay as well as boring flying.
Remember, someone is paying for your toy. Fun does not pay the bills or keep the passengers happy.
. For me, I would rather enjoy my work more than make lots of money. Everyone's fun/money ratio requirement is different. What makes one person happy may not work for someone else.