macdo - "I imagine the latest cadets have their eyes firmly fixed on the debt mountain they have incurred to sit in the right seat of a 'bus. That 60k at 25 years old is a lot less attractive when you are repaying a 100k loan! So now you are tied to the job by the debt, as if you leave your earning potential is immediately halved"
It's a little bit like black medical graduates and specialisation here. Although few will have quite the same enormous depts as aviation graduates, their families will have gone without for years to get them through and do expect some return.
Setting up as a cash-at-the-door GP is easy - within weeks the rands are rolling in! Specialisation means another 4-5 years of low income and it takes another few years after specialisation for the real money to start.
Not many young black graduates and their families have the time for all that tralala - especially when only a few specialists ever make it into the the big moolah!
