I was thinking of industries that are comparable to aviation in that small groups of individuals retrain themselves at great personal cost and undergo similar problems in order to try and find that elusive position. Point taken about sport, modelling and entertainment, in the sense that there are thousands chasing after a handful of jobs, but do those people chasing the positions have to fork out enormous amounts of their own hard earned to get a foot on the ladder or undertake similar training at their own expense? (Perhaps they do I don’t know). At the time of posting I was thinking perhaps of Commercial Diving – e.g. rig work etc, Professional sailing, motor racing etc. None of these are things that I know a great deal about, just wondered if the barriers to entry where similar