What ever happened to the days where you would have to instruct for a couple of years and save up enough money to buy 50 hours of multi time so that you could land a job flying checks from Jacksonville to Brimingham single pilot IFR and scare yourself enough times with no one on board so that another one or two years later you were confident and skilled enough to fly 19 passengers around in a 1900 for four years while you waited for your first part 121 upgrade to captain?
That's what we thought about doing in college ten years ago... or join the military and fly.