Your right in all that VeeAny, and you only have to look at a thread on this very same page (the Police/HEMS Job) to see that when it comes to pay/getting hired, just what your up against as a self sponsored civvie trained person with no pension being paid to you in your 30's to supplement the salary offered by these operators. One read of that thread will do wonders for putting things into a realistic light for many with rose tinted Ray bans and a head full of dreams.