Spartacan. Well put! You summed up what its all about. You think straight and you do not have installed fixed pink lenses infront of your eyeballs, like some of the desperados have. The branch has reached an all time low. Todays pilots and wannabe's have to deal with a set of degrated values, where:
1. You pay for your own education, even though no EU society can work without aviation
2. You know that being willing to pay for typerating makes you more attractive than a typerated experienced pilot when you look for employment
3. You don't expect normal decency such as being let off the schedule for childbirth, marriage and death
4. You accept to work under conditions that didnt even exist this bad in the 1950s, such as no vacation, no regard for holidays, overtime, hotels and transportation
5. You accept to pay for your employers expenses to run the operation, such as simulatortime, hotels, transportation and positioning
6. You generally have lost your dignity, and you are afraid like all the others, making it impossible to start a union to improve things, even though there are thousands of pilots in the same situation