Paolo / BitMoreRightRudder,
Indeed there are many over the dacades who have had not just a satisfactory, but a wonderful life in a cockpit with the remuneration and lifestyle that went along with it. Unfortunately those days are past. Like many events in history, the goldrush, the dot.com boom etc etc.
As you pointed out paolo, you 'made it happen in the 1990's' and BMRR got into EZ at a time when 'perm contracts were being given cadets'.
The thing is, those days are in the history books and the thread is based on is it a viable career
now.
ba038, the point of this thread is not to depress to the future wannabes, but to give the cold hard facts away from the
PR and Marketing spilling out from the FTO's; They want your money, the posters here do not.
When you have the hard facts you can base your decsions accordingly.