I've got about 6 hours now and find it not the slightest bit
fun.

Can anyone remind me why I'm inflicting this on myself?

I assume your question is (only) partly in jest, and looking for
support. What kind of flying do you want to do? If all you want is to
poke holes in the sky and go for a $150 hamburger, then maybe you don't
need to do this. Ditto if you live in Arizona, where I don't think they
even have a =word= for cloud. OTOH if you want to get transportation
value out of the aircraft, or live where puffy white things would get in
the way of your aviation, =and= don't already have a (bad) habit of
looking at the cockpit instead of out the window(*), then an instrument
rating will allow you to fly when you otherwise could not, even if you
end up staying out of the clouds most of the time.

A perfect example came up a little while ago - I was going from Florida
to Cleveland, with a gas stop in Shelby (EHO - a great airport and FBO
BTW). After waiting out a thunderstorm that would send Thor to his
dugout, it was a little wispy (scattered to broken at 500 feet, nothing
above). I could depart IFR and then cancel if I wanted to. As it
turned out, the field went to 700 scattered while I was getting the
flight plan filed, so I abandoned that plan and departed VFR, flying
most of the way visually, climbing ultimately to 12,000 to avoid some
hills and the building clouds below, and navigating visually around a
few big thunderclouds as the sun was going down over the mountains. I
preferred to remain visual so I could see the thunderbumpers before I
bumped into them, and got flight following so that I could get a
clearance if I needed to. Most of the way I didn't. But descending
into Cleveland, it was overcast with tops at 4000, so I was going to
have to file. A quick call to Approach got me an ILS into CGF, which I
took down to minimums before breaking out. After about eight hours of
flying, it wasn't my best approach, but if I didn't have the rating, I
would not have been able to make the trip at all. Being stuck on top
with no rating would not be very comfortable.

Jose
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