Dude, I'm just venting like you do, and have done for the past 3 or 4 years. I'm not stupid enough to think that anything I type here will change anything. Do you honestly think this board has any influence on any subject whatsoever? I'm fulltime employed, in aviation, in a flying job and not subsidised by jobkeeper or seeker. Just like you were lucky enough to pick up a job with your old employer when you got back from overseas, so did I. Well, not with my old employer, a new one.