5 years at a regional.

If I join a regional with 1000hrs, mostly PIC.
I work as FO for 2 or 3 years (Well within reason considering the upgrade times I saw), and then work as Captain for 3 years.
I would expect to have 5000TT, and 3000PIC, probably jet. Reasonable?

Are you telling me that the airlines that are currently hiring (Southwest, JB, Continental, UPS, FedEx,...) will not hire you with those numbers. What happens in a few years when the rest of the majors start hiring again... I am sorry, but even given the poor hiring conditions of today, 5 years at a decent regional is a fair estimation. If you disagree, I'd like to hear actual reasons.

No deductive reasoning...Just cause one guy said that 15 years ago does not speak for the other 90% of regional pilots from 15 years ago who are flying for majors today.