For me it's not really about the money.
Me and my partner live just outside of gatwick in crawley. We both do shift work and she does stopover work in her job anyway.
You say the math isn't important or the grades but I don't know many airlines willing to take people on without at least 5 a-c grades. Ctc won't. Not much point me doing all the stuff and then every airline turning around saying sorry you don't meet the minimum requirements.
For me I'd be happy on about 45k. Yes Id like to earn more but I'm not really a big spender.
We've just bought a house and the mortgage is about 1100 a month.
That's our biggest outlay and in 2 years that will drop when we remortgage.
I'd be quite happy at one of the smaller airlines but I couldn't afford to give up this job so my only option is modular.