Why would you go to Uni, incurring decent amount of debt when you get paid management level incomes to work a trade? Or worst still spend 150k to be a pilot to earn minimum wage type of salaries.
Allow me to answer and perhaps bring you down to reality.
Tradies make pretty good money but they crawl around in a roof space at forty degrees and work many spaces that are unpleasant. The BIG issue is aging. A white collar worker can sit at their desk to aged 65 quite easily. A tradie loses the ability to crawl around in small space by their fifties. So unless they have set up a business employing young turks to do the grunt work they are in a world of pain, literally and figuratively. Tradies also go out in all weather. We grumble at a five minute walk around in the wet.
Which pilots are on "minimum wage type salaries"? Really come on. $882.80 is the minimum wage based on a 38 hour week. That is
$45,905 pa. Please post a link or other evidence that there is a pilot in Australia earning that little having spent $150k on licence and ratings.
I am all for increased wages and more importantly, better conditions but be realistic about what others do.