One of our project managers in the eighties gave up £64,000 plus performance to become a teacher and we understood why. What ever you think about your insecurity it is as nothing compared with out here. There are no secure jobs outside goverment paid work. That is all there is to it. I am a high earner but I have seen my income go down over the last fifteen years, not up. I have had to reinvent myself regularly to take advantage of what ever is fashionable for companies to spend their money on. Then new bods come in and do the job better for less. This isn't a reflection on my ability but the fact that these people can build on my experience. Jobs we invented in the seventies now have university courses. Competition is to pay less not more.
In 1989 you could get a fortune doing software or hardware engineering. Now every second new degree is coming onto the market in competition. Just look at the advertised salaries. £17,000 pa is not the same as the £250 a day that they were getting then. Or maybe you fancy getting CORGI registered. That is probably your best bet but do you know how to market yourself in that way? As for aviation just look at the other forums. I met a young pilot for a US company who earns less than my cleaner. No line shoot.
It is !!!!e the way you are getting treated but it is no better here and we don't have the security of the mess. It is lonely and stressfull. There are no dining nights where I work.