Well, this thread says it all. Any bright young kid thinking of becoming a pilot should read it.
Take a hint....dont do it! You could invest 000's of your own money in getting a license and hear the likes of Flip Flop telling your sorry ass to buy a sarnie and be grateful for a job.
If you can pass a CPL-IR and ATPL written, you can get REAL careeer to, one which leads to monetary reward, and self respect, plus you can sleep in your own bed at night and come home to your wife and kids. Its hard to put a value on that, but in my view its beyond price.
Or you can read this sort of thing and wonder where the whole industry is going. I have to say that any competent outsider would look at this and see it as pathetic. Truck drivers do get treated better: they have a mandatory tachograph for rest periods, without the labyrinthian CAP 371, and can pull into a decent cafe for a sarnie and a brew.
Saddest of all are the glee merchants who hop up at every opportunity and revel in the latest indignity heaped on a profession where lves are at stake, personal accountability is absolute and self-critical analysis in a brutal and on-going way are key to a safe and succesful career.