Chuck - yep, yer right.
Anyone with the smarts to make it in aviation could get into my 'other' profession and be paid $50K + for their first year of a 3 year training program, come out the other end with a Diploma and make $100k + a year, without leaving Oz.
You can also make quite serious bucks flying; just not necessarily instantly when you get outa the training program with a bare CPL
living in your favourite capital city
.
Its a matter of what you want to do - make a living, or live life.
In that vein - OK, I'll bite - WTF you on about with that job?