Go to your library and borrow Capt Reg Adkins' book "I Flew For MMA".
start off as a DC-3 FO doing 10 sectors a day in the 50s with hardly any navaids or radar,
I met him once flogging his book at a shopping centre in Darwin. He told me a great story about loading/unloading (hanging) meat directly into the DC-3 for transport, in between the morning and afternoon passenger flights...