+1 to everything said about "Paying dues", "Building experience", and "Flight Instructing".

I did the CFI route as well as beg, borrow, and pay for the multi time I needed to get my career off the ground.

For all you regional airline guys keep up the good fight!!! In a lot of ways I envy guys flying those shiny jets with autopilots and a/c while I hand fly a dirty turboprop and sweat to death. In the end it will all be worth it.

I hope this new law helps weed out all those guys/gals who did it because they watched "top gun" and thought it was an easy way to make money and get laid. The guys/gals who never got beat up in the summer heat in a 172 trying to teach a student steep turns, or honed their ninja like reflexes by saving a couple hundred bad landings.