Actually I'm seeing a really weird trend. You have TPIC...that seems to be a hinderance rather than a help nowadays. Sure wish I would have known several years ago that having PIC time seems to be a bad thing. If you look at the threads of airlines that are hiring and then see who is getting the calls a LOT of the folks are FOs with ZERO TPIC. "Back in the day" (not sure what day specifically so don't ask) all I was told was get heavy, international PIC time and you can write your own ticket. Well that's what I did and it seemed to make sense. Could have gone to any commuter and flown with them but thought that would be a career killer. So, now here I am watching guys with similar total times or less (or much less) and no PIC getting calls while I just sit and stare at my phone. Not saying I'm any better of a pilot or anything like that (and if you ask anyone that's flown with me they can verify that) but usually when you look at an applicant, those with the most checked boxes usually win...or so I thought. It's just frustrating to me that it seems nowadays those guys with TPIC are determined to be less desiable to hire for some reason.