I dunno some other industries are just as bad...
Have a mate who is a barrister up north... Yeap those poor fellas sometimes have to do it just the same...
He owes $100k for a bond uni degree
spent 2 years as an intern earning $0 yeap no pay
then had the promise of minimum wage for 3 years as he learnt the ropes
turned it down on hearing a firm in Darwin may need someone so packed the car at a whim... Worked in woolworths to pay the rent cause the boss was on leave..
He is now up for becoming a partner
sounds pretty familiar to some of us... I'm sure he was thinking he would be straight out of uni as a judge or wearing a wig.
The reality however is we all need to crawl before we can run... We all need to earn our stripes... I would hardly call it degrading. If anything it humbles many and weeds out those who don't want it as bad as the rest.
Of course some operators are better than others but that is a different matter...