My situational awareness says that, like nearly all of the rest of us, I worked hard to get my licence.
I marketed my self as a pilot and entered into a reasonable contract in return for my market worth.
I do not think I ought to be grateful for a job at BA or bmi.
Atitudes like Stucano simply allow managers and accountants to erode our market worth - wake up smell the coffee and toughen up, it's a hard world out here.