Amen to that. The sad thing is most wannabes forget that it is just a job at the end of the day. After a few years of early morning starts wandering from a distant airport carpark in torrential rain on yet another weekend the glamour (if there ever was any) has certainly run out. On that long walk into flight ops you can remind yourself of the long time to command, the companys new policy to recruit lower paid pilots into overseas bases that will now fly in and do your work and its reduction in fleet size and all the knock on effects that will have onto your career.
But hey why listen to us when you can go and blow 100k on an integrated course, pay another 30k to Michael O'Leary and then look forward to lots of unpaid leave once your deemed to expensive to fly. But never fear there will be command opportunities should you so wish to upsticks and move to whichever new base he requires cheap labour for. Sealed bids into a box please - just name your price.