DD mate you sound like a legend. If I am down VIC way and assuming you are there, drinks all round, and yes its my shout. One Guiness and one Kilkenny thanks.
Rivnut-Mate sounds like you have it scunned. Level headed approach.
Sounds like all of us agree that the industry is many and varied and will be around long after we all hang up our boots. The trick is to find a niche that offers what you need. When you find that place stay there as long as you can cause there are some full on ship wreck of aviators around the traps. I met a cabbie at Mascot the other day who was ex mil, Cathay pilot on his second marriage with no life and no job and absolutely hated everything and everybody-Poor Pri*k
Again I am off the track. Good luck and enjoy.
Max
