"I am more than aware that the pay is poor. I never said it wasn't!! I said I know and I don't care because I get to fly 738s. Frankly if they didn't pay me at all I would still be there (and no I can't afford it)"
Buddy, if that came out of your mouth on my flight deck I'd be sitting on my hands to avoid slapping you. Honest to god, you're exactly the kind of person our industry doesn't need. Then again, you might just be dense, either way stay out.
Your desire to work for free may well come true though if there are enough of you people in the industry. I'll tell you what, the airlines are more than happy to accommodate your request, in fact most of them would in a heartbeat if it wasn't for the pilots fighting for their rights through unions. One thing is for sure, you won't be making any friends with your mindset if you DO get hired one day.
6 months down the line when your company has removed all staff travel, food and water making you pay your own sim-checks, ID cards, medicals and graciously decide to decrease your pay because of fuel costs/decrease in pax loads/whatever other reason they think of you might start to wake up. When they then decide to re-base you to Poland indefinitely as per your contract, change your roster from 5 on 3 off to 5 on 2 off and remove 5 annual leave days you're not going to wake up before the alarm rings, you're going to be awake all night wondering wtf went wrong.
But you say, by then I'll have enough hours to move on. Sure you will, but by accepting the conditions you did you gave your company the edge. Other companies soon follow suite to remain competitive. So when you start looking around for another job, you find that the conditions are crap elsewhere too. Right now times are pretty good, and changing company is an option for a lot of guys and still we have this bullying management in plenty of places. How do you think they'll treat a newbie guy who just prostituted himself to get hired in the first place when times are bad and no jobs can be found.
Think about that for a while why don't you.