Hmmm... My previous post disappeared!
you must have iron guts
Pretty much!
Fair enough. The reality for me is I get around 50% of the year off, a 737 captain gets 200k a year with allowances (which is over triple the average australian wage so if you can't do something with that you need to look at what you are doing), I work with generally great people, and I work in Australia. I prefer to focus on these big things and not worry too much about the "nice to haves". Sure I would like them but I am not going to lose sleep over not having them.