Of course no one is forced here, however there are those who are misleaded, misguided and misinformed about what day to day life is REALLY like in the UAE as a pilot, and end up here only to think, after the honeymoon period is over (i.e. 3 months) 'WTF am I doing here'?
I think Laker mentioned it above, and I fully agree - if your lucky to get 2 days off in a row flying the narrow body fleet (one day was becoming the norm) then the first day is write-off because you are sleeping until 2PM, the 2nd day is a write-off because getting done what should be the simple things in life done like shopping, laundry etc, renewing something just takes the entire bloody day and generally, for most parts of the year, just zaps your energy.