I think the big thing for me (not wifey) was that the job is just absolutely demoralising. I just have no interest in it. I just don't like flying anymore. Which is sad because it was my passion. I dread getting in that aeroplane, and I must say part of the reason is the guy sitting in the left seat. I just don't understand a lot of the motivation here at CX. People have lost their enthusiasm and are just sitting glumly in an aluminium tube counting their cash. I don't want to get to 55 and have to say "thank god that's over". I want to enjoy what I'm doing and I want to work with people of a similar mind set. That is something I just can't get at CX. I look at the faces in the crew room, glum, tired, dejected. Drab walls, drab faces, I simply don't enjoy it. The crew room at my last employer was like a bar! Jokes, laughter, happy enthusiastic people enjoying what they do. Working here is like being a morgue technician, 30 years of working with dead people before ending up on the slab yourself!