Fully agree with Roland!
And something needs to be done! Establishing a worldwide (IFALPA) agreement on minimum wages, banning "paying your own type ratings" etc, is the only chance to obtain a minimum level of working standards.
Anyone of the folks criticizing a post like his, are the same people who contribute to lowering the standards by accepting what is done to our community.
Working longer hours, for less pay, with the extreme unsecurity our job market now displays is not for the benefit of anyone, and is not what can be considered a "future career". How anyone today can justify to pay the obscene amount of money that is required to obtain a license, and then proceed to a job is unbelievable.
I admire the ones who do, but they should be properly compensated in the future with pay that commensurate with the effort put in, and that balances the risk our job market presents.
Last edited by KADS; 18th Dec 2003 at 17:26.