This is all starting to sound like Derek and Clive's "What's the Worse Job You've Ever Had Sketch"... There are certainly good, well paid rewarding jobs to be had outside of aviation, and there are sure as heck bad jobs inside. Nobody is right, nobody is wrong, own opinions are shaped by where we are in the scheme of things and may well be very different to those the poor soul living thousands of kilometres from his family, at a base not of his choosing and perhaps also 100K in debt (because despite the rose tinted spectacles those people do exist).
I don't see many/any of the FTO's mentioning the down side of working for the LCCs, they are too busy plastering pictures of sunglass wearing "graduates" across their websites to mention all the realities....so despite the bickering maybe this thread is doing some good.