No worries WWW, to be honest I could probably do with a bit of calming down most of the time.
I don't have your financial acumen but from my very simplistic viewpoint I feel that the industry is still very much on its knees and no amount of up beat reports from BBC, Boeing etc will convince me otherwise.
I started modular training at the beginning of 2007 when the jobs were easier to find. It may well be that I have spunked an awful lot of money against the wall for no result but at least it was my money and was not loaned from anyone. At the time I had engineering as a plan B if the flying didn't happen but it seems that the flying is working out to be the plan B.
Unfortunately the sort of reports linked to in previous replies are pure
mag material for the flying schools (modular and integrated) that are trying to convince people to part with their cash. I can almost hear these reports being quoted verbatim at their open days.
Cheers
MM