xavierb...A lot must have changed in the 3 years you have been gone, because I started 2 years ago, and already earn quite a bit more than your figures...in fact I am getting close to those "Captain salaries" you published for Europe!!!
As you will see in this thread, time and time again, what suits one person, does´nt necessarily suit the next.
I love this job and think I have a much better quality of life than before, AND I have wife and kids.
Of cause some people will always make a job look better, but then OTHERS will always make it look worse.
I still have to see the aviation job that has perfect rosters and working conditions.
Any job is what you make of it.
I think its great that you changed jobs, because by the sound of it, you were not happy at all. That is, IMHO the time to change, because you will just make yourself and your collegues miserable otherwise !
As for me, as I said, I am very happy here.
Oh, and I am not one of those same old guys you mentioned...happy landings
