Well, to be fair, those 135 jobs aren't that plentiful as we find ways to be more efficient and not have to burn Jet-A to transport any and everything, especially short distances. Checks are done electronically. More businesses are using electronic means of correspondence, and so on. Then there's the myriad of regional airlines that shouldn't even exist in the first place, as they were propped up by creditors to buy airplanes and kept from failing by the government regulations. If you stick your neck out and put in the hard work, there's no reasonable means of reward or being successful. It's not that people want a free-ride, but there has to be at least a reasonable possibility of attaining something better. So with the industry as it is, it's hard to blame the pilots that you are getting. No one worth their two cents would be getting into the game now. As a society, we all want to have things cheap and not pay the true cost. We want to be able to send huge packages for just a few bucks. We want to travel across the country for only a few hundred dollars. We want gas at a dollar a gallon. We want all these things, and if given the option of the quick and easy which may be or is unsustainable, we choose it 100% of the time. This goes both ways, don't just blame the younger "generation", blame yourself for making all of the above choices, and if you can't do that, blame the businesses that gave you those choices, and if you can't do that, blame the government that allowed the business to give you those choices. Human nature is pretty clear, and there are good guys out there that want to make a difference and do the right thing, although it seems like most people like to deny the implications of their decisions and have to have the right thing "forced" on them...