Anyone who asks such a question has either no knowledge of the industry or is very new to it. The good days are long over and there is no way I could recommend it as a career for anyone. It has to one of be the most costly, tested, checked, examined and ultimately unstable and unreliable professions. I find it mystifying that the idea of pushing buttons and programming an autopilot to fly miles offshore from a grey, miserable part of the country in awful weather wearing an uncomfortable rubber suit to earn money to pay back an enormous loan is seen as the ultimate goal.