Now I am truely disheartened
Having just read the entire thread I see that Australias disease has spread into SE Asia. I thought conditions here were bad and considered that paying AU$25000 for a B73 rating (read job) would be the end of pilot mistretment in General Aviation and the first stepping stone on the path to the dream jet job and life style. Obviously not. I'm sure that I would be the type of candidate SIA Cargo would be looking for, all the ticks in the boxes but no rating and already used to working for peanuts in Oz. Reading this post is highly discouraging and I wonder how much worse it will get before pilots actually learn to stick together and make things better for ourselves.
Best of luck to all.
VneII