@ Obbie...
"-Landed Immigrant status.
-Canadian ATPL
-A willingness to be paid crap in a tax crippling society.
-Acceptance of ever deteriorating conditions of employment.
-Indifference to a professional group that is fractured and
self destructive to each other.
-The complete erosion of any pride in your career, company
or co-worker.
-and being a low time, visible minority, female doesn't hurt either. "
LOL... I'd say that covers most of it.