Okay, I'll chime in here. I guess I'm considered a high timer, and when I graduated college in '92, you could'nt sniff a commuter FO job with anything less than 2000 TT. So yeah, I might be a little bitter about having to flight instruct for 2 long years, fly the Alaskan bush for a year and a half, and instruct and charter for another 2 years before getting a decent cargo job on 727's. If this new crop of pilots think they have it tough to build 500/50, I don't wanna hear it. I had 2500/500 before I got a 121 job, and that was only because I had friends working there who walked in my resume, and got me an interview. Say what you want, but flight time and experience count for alot in my book, no matter how good your training was. I would probably be a CA at a major right now if the mins were this low when I graduated, so I guess I'm a little ****ed at my timing!