I didn't have any money to learn to fly and parents wouldn't pay so I got something called a job, and learnt to fly as I earnt. Took 5 years but so what still worked out. And no I wasn't handed a job it was an unskilled factory job that paid pretty crap casual salary. And I agree RQ put all their eggs in one basket called AAA and pretty much crippled the traditional member base. They were set up to fail years and years ago.