My experience was not so good as the above successes, left after 22 years, went for a job as a scheduled servicing engineer which was promised at Scampton with Airworks or whatever they are called now. Arrived the first day for induction and an hour later was told they had moved me to a lesser job as a linie. Argued the toss without success and half an hour later, was out of there.
Chose a different career and have done just fine.