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Old 4th Nov 2013, 06:30
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macdo
 
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Sorry, I didn't express myself more clearly. Most employers are little different to airlines in the way they treat their employees these days. But, on a like for like basis, in terms of the status of our particular job, airlines have become poor employers in comparison to those of other professionals. Few, for example, expect you to go into debt to the tune of 100k plus to get the job in the first place.
A then (then being when I was about 20) and now (being 55),

Top 1 percentile salary - lucky to start on a living wage.
Decent Final Salary Pension - useless money purchase scheme or none.
Not dangerously overworked - Pilots falling asleep at work.
Station security - largely you go where they tell you.
Job Security - Zero Hours or Summer Contracts
Being Fed and Watered on Duty - Lucky if you get water supplied
Proper Hotac when rest is needed. - Premier Inn
Positioned by Taxi - Positioned in a Self Drive Car.

These just came off the top of my head, and if you never had the good times in the first place, many wouldn't even notice that they were gone. The fact remains though, that if we don't draw a line in the sand there will soon be a third column where the degraded 'now' will become the longed for nirvana of yesteryear.

And none of this is to say that you can't lead a happy life, just a slightly more frugal and tired one!
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