If I may give you one good piece of advice it is this: if you didn't grow up in the commonwealth educational system don't join an airline which is british managed (like CX, EK, EY).
Their authoritarian leadership style will threaten you for your existence on every day you go to work. No matter how many flight hours you have they will treat you as a schoolboy. It seems like they just don't want to leave the 19th century in terms of corporate governance.
I made the mistake a few years ago and it left me as a broken man, traumatized for ever.