3. By people like you and me, aka the market.
Whatever airline you joined recently, it isn't a well paying one, that is certain. After many years in Cathay you can afford it, you have different work-balance needs as you had 20 years ago. You just want to be home. It suits you and that is totally ok. I have no problem with your career choice at all, but you must see that you are part of the problem, not the solution.
You are accepting market conditions that others can't or don't want to accept, and nothing else is happening everywhere all the time.
If you actually retired, maybe a younger (and poorer) version of yourself might have made a different decision. You maybe got hired directly in the left seat, which again your younger self might have met with less enthusiasm.
You are the demand, you are keeping this market alive, we all do. Don't you see that?
Last edited by Sam Ting Wong; 4th Nov 2021 at 16:02.