Get out in the real world, get the experience and move on to some solid multi command. Sure there are risks, both financial and even personnel. But we've all done it, and in much tougher times than now.
The real world? Advertisement in today's Weekend Australian June 4-6.
Australian Government Secret Intelligence Service wants an Assistant Director-General Information Management and Technology. That person will contribute actively to the broader strategic leadership of ASIS as a member of its senior leadership team etc.
SALARY: $151,463 to $166,174 plus super plus executive car.
A Qantas A380 second officer is reputed to pick up a cool $180,000 a year and an F/O $280,000 a year for swanning around the world staying at the best hotels and monitoring a computer. Eventually they become captains at $380,000 a year plus perks.
Is it any wonder there is no shortage of would-be cadet pilots forking out big bucks to learn to fly and eventually reaching the dizzy status of monitoring the radios from the jump seat of an A380. They would be crazy to spend their parents money being ripped off at a dodgy flying school on a battered C150 only to spend the next few years flogging a Cessna 210 around Arnhem land to build up hours to get into the jump seat as a computer programmer in an A380...