QFcaptain..get real..my plumber makes three times the money that I make...he buys an apartment a year.. There is plenty of job out there that may be don't have the "sex appeal" of flying but that pays much better...and like you to spend wiyh your family every weekend.. You don't know probably because you were to busy flying and looking in the mirror thinking .." ooohhh I'm so cool in this uniform..." all this years , thinking you are the king of the skyes...and it is cause of people like you that we get screwed so easily....
And by the way...to be attracted by that "sex appeal" you either have to be a maniac (...and how many I met..) or blind...
Flying was a good job when it was not massified and you really needed guts and a lot more knowledge and culture ( are you able to use a sextant..).
You got loads of money and could retire quite soon...before your health started to deteriorate..
I see people here getting old at the speed of light... think Einstein was wrong!