SpreadEagle's concert analogy.
Imagine pprune to be a website for concert lovers. In the other fora there are happy fans who went to see Britney Spears last night, or maybe they are complaining that n-sync weren't quite as good as they had hoped.
But you are now in the wannabe section of pprune. This is the "We bought our tickets on the internet off a thieving pikey" forum.
You are wondering why, when you have paid for your tickets, that they did not come through your letter box? You spent lots of time filling in all your bank details and it cost lots of money. But still no tickets.
Some will tell you if you go to these concerts and set out the chairs for a few years, one day they will let you see a concert for free. It happened to a guy named Bob back in 2005. It could happen to you. In fact here is Bob. He totally enjoyed the Foo Fighters. That's what he recommends.
Some people will tell you if you go back to the pikey site and now order a backstage pass for £27,000, your tickets and the backstage pass will arrive together very soon. That has to be worth investigating.
And some people will tell you if you
want those tickets bad enough, the gypsies will eventually send them to you. You just have to really want them.
Now swap dishonest pikey for FTO (not a huge leap of imagination), and concert ticket for airline job.
When do you think your tickets will arrive?