cldrvr: "we don't want these 18 year old rentapilot wannabees with 150 hours and daddy's money coming over to our side of the industry".
Ouch.
Mungo: Good point. I have no doubt that I'm being narrow minded, but I hadn't thought of the business jet side of things. How would one even go about getting into the business jet part? I've received the FlightGlobal jobs email for ages and never seen anything about business jets in there.
Does sound more interesting than EasyJet, no matter what.
Purple pitot: What kind of salary range are we talking about here?
Obviously I can't reply to everyone here - I would be here forever, but just wanted to say thank you for helping someone so naive
All of the advice has definitely given me something to think about over the next few days, and my time surfing around on PPRuNe has shown me that the industry really is screwed up.