weasel, your saying things that were being said 30 years ago, things dont really change, they only appear to.we all moan about the job, it's a requirement for having a licence. we all talk about leaving but never do, airplanes are in our blood, i think it's a privilege to be a chosen one and to have a licence and being prepared to accept the responsibility for the safety of the pax and aircraft,and yes i'm proud to be a licenced engineer, after all said we all made our own descisions to become licenced, and i have never regretted it (well, only on a daily basis).sure you cant get tooling,spares etc, you get impossible deadlines, were all in the same tent, but thats the job were in, it,s never going to change, and as they say, life was't meant to be easy
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