MAM/Qantas pay better than Jetstar, and you'll get paid fortnightly throughout the training (rather than at the completion of GS!). The training wage isn't a whole lot but the hourly rate is high - around $35 p/h from memory. If you are allocated the bare minimum 20 hours for one week (i.e. all home reserves for a week without being called out - you're on standby for 12 hours but get paid for 4), you'd still make a full time wage. Whilst being on reserve for many consecutive days is always to be expected in this industry (I have a lot of this in my first roster), I'd say you would be called out most of the time... Hence, I don't think money would be an issue.