All in the past and the present looks very unappealing to me. A view I will pass on to the Wannabees at the Taverna.
And that’s a shame. It is widely recognised that your generation worked less for more, in pretty much any career you care to mention. There has been a continuous decline in salaries and terms and conditions, such that generally a two person household, where both work full time jobs, obtains the same standard of living as the one where just one person worked, back in the day. The so called ‘cost of living crisis’ has arisen because that decline has accelerated post covid, but it was already well underway with stagnating salaries, even before the credit crunch. Pretty much everyone I know from university, took promotions post credit crunch, just to maintain salary. What you are basically saying to your young wannabes is, “Working isn’t worth the effort because no jobs are as good as they were back in my day.”
Flying airliners is still an excellent career. The difficulty of training to gain entry, versus the financial reward over a career for such minimal effort, is streaks ahead of any other career I can think of, and it’s a fun career too. I would definitely recommend it to anyone who has any interest at all in flying.