I would not want to be a First Officer at Ryanair but as a Stansted based Captain the job takes a lot of beating.
We get well paid, a fixed five on four off roster and home every night.
The cadets coming through are very well trained and a pleasure to fly with.
Obviously the job is not so good if you are not based at home and have to commute but with our expansion everybody gets their base of choice eventually.
Even commuting is easy because we can just jumpseat without a ticket providing we are in uniform.
Downside is trying to get leave when you want it but the day to day job is good.
Most of the negative replies on here are by people that don't work for Ryanair and probably failed the selection because we do have many applications for every job with consequential high failure rate.