Easy Street.
to buy a nice house in a respectable location for 3 x annual salary and then surf the repeated property booms of the 1980s and 1990s up the property ladder while watching inflation eat your debt every few years.
Bollocks. Not if you lived in the London area at the time of galloping inflation and wage restraint.
Many of those recently retired also held part time jobs at the beginning of their careers. Others, even more motivated to get ahead, did external university degrees. Several also did part time flying jobs.
Their careers didn't just fall out of the sky, they worked for them.
Re NATS postings I remember it as being offered as a choice of primary, secondary and tertiary locations. I was advised to write the same station in every choice to have even a remote chance of getting something suitable.
NATS is an organisation with a great work force in all disciplines but the top level management both then and now has never been of the best.
I resigned and took my modest talents else where.
