Chaps, if you havn't made this realisation yet then let me enlighten you. Where you end up in this industry is largely a matter of luck depending on who's recruiting at the time that you are looking for a job. Let's not pretend we all had some kind of superhuman foresight now that it turns out we work for a successful airline. I appreciate that it's easy for me to say this from the LHS but one day you might have a huge mortgage, a family to support, school fees to pay etc etc and next time it might be you! Hard to imagine right now though I grant you.