You need to get over your envy and jealousy.
It really has twisted your mind.
Find something you can excel at, rather than curse those who have done something with their lives.
“You need to get over your envy and jealousy. ...
Find something you can excel at,..”
Still laboring, I see, under the misconception that I envy fighter pilots. I suppose I could, if I was a whiny, backstabbing mama’s boy also.
My disenchantment stems directly from the facts: they are dishonorable as a group. A net negative for the profession; can’t be bothered to learn anything else, can’t bear to let anyone compete, and refuse to let anyone else lead, despite their incompetence at leading.
Don’t take my word for it. Read Rebecca Hancock Cameron’s book _Training to Fly: Military Flight Training 1907-1945_ (USGPO, ISBN-10: 1530027888; ISBN-13: 978-1530027880).
In her exhaustive study, she describes how unit commanders at the front during World War One had to beat the egotism and competition-junkie nonsense out of the head of pilots just arriving from flight school - in some cases, almost literally.
And she cites the diaries of fighter pilots (and wannabe fighter pilots) dating from World War Two: the fighter pilots regularly nursed their wounded egoes, feeling disrespected. They felt they were owed more deference, because they could shoot down any other airplane out there, including our own. And the wannabe pilots who’d been assigned to bomber or airlift units felt equally disrespected, because the military wasn’t using their talents properly. Didn’t anyone realize fighters could shoot down any other airplane out there?
If you can translate these examples of truculent superiority-feelings into a defense of how fighter pilots are better at leading, therefore the rest of us must bend our knee their way, I can’t wait to hear it.