This is my experience with a career success rate.

Every person I know that has been motivated, hardworking, ambitious and busted their butt has gotten anywhere from a decent to excellent pilot job. I have noticed a direct correlation between motivation and where people end up.

When I started at the commuters, we had 9 of us in our new hire class. This was 9 years ago. One guy washed out. I don't know what ever happened to him. Here is where the others are:

Three at AirTran.

One at JetBlue.

One at Southwest.

One is a sim instructor for Flight Safety (I don't know how great of a job this is but he seems to like it).

One is at UPS.

Shoot. I can't remember the last guy but I know he is at a somewhat decent airline.