No kidding. Boo-hoo I have to get an ATP in order to get hired.
A lot of guys today wouldn't have the dedication to sling it out in the 90's -- spending years teaching people how to fly, flying checks in clapped out Apache's in any type of weather, only to hit a brick wall when the airlines you'd hoped to work for suddenly required you to write a check for $12,000 to get hired in the right seat of a Metro. All this for $17,000/year.
My heart bleeds.