The Uni lecturers/career advisors in high schools need their @rses kicked.
They’re lieing to vulnerable/hopeful kids, then signing them up to 150k dollar debts in an industry where most will NEVER get a job which pays minimum wage.
There is no pilot shortage in Australia, most likely won’t be anything close to a shortage for 10 years.
Also, I’d imagine that most students have no real interest in actually flying...but more of an interest in walking around Tullamarine in a set of raybans, do 2 trips to LA a month and put cockpit pics on Instagram.