MHN, it is not too late for you, at 30, to change careers. Realistically you could be 35 before any airline will look at you seriously. By then, terms and conditions will be worse than they are now. You will probably have to sign up to a 7 year bond and not make enough salary to do anything other than live and pay interest only payments on all the debt you will have accrued in pursuit of a dream job. And just when you think you can see the light at the end of the tunnel and the possibility to pay off your debts in your mid to late 40s, your company will make you redundant and you will have to start all over again at the bottom of a seniority list again, living away from your family and living off pot noodles in your bedsit. Think I am joking?