If you are interested in learning about pilot employment with Ryanair have a look at this for an assessment (see post number 7)
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=214074
There is an updated version of this for which I don't have link. The updated version suggests that some pilots have been without pay for many, many months while awaiting the convenience of Ryanair after paying upfront for their rating. I think
richarjm did rather well, based on what the low-time people have told me in the past (admittedly that was a few months ago).