Join the rest of the world. Most people have crap hours, crap days off, treated like crap by their employers, and no job security....etc. and guess what the majority earn 26000 ( in the UK as that is the average annual salary ) I'm just a FO and guess what I think I'm overpaid for what i do ( not that I'm complaining) but I'm not about to complain that I should be getting more, I would be quite happy with just inflation pay rises for the remainder.