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Old 14th Oct 2009, 00:37
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Metro man
 
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I like what I do most of the time, every job has its good and bad points. Yes the pay is reasonable.

However I think of what I had to sacrifice in order to get here, the cost of training, years in low paid jobs filling up the logbook, periods of unemployment, having to take a second job to get by while working as a turbo prop captain.

Four years of university and a graduate starting salary seems quite appealing in comparison.

If you can get your training paid for and a decent job then it's worth it, twenty years in the US Airforce then join FEDEX brilliant.

However the reality is getting more like going into tens of thousands of debt getting a job with Ryanair and taking years to break even financially whilst enjoying the respect and working conditions shown by MOL to his employees.

The good days of high pay and benefits, reasonable working conditions and respect from management are drawing to an end if not already over for most.
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