"And who cares how you built your time, you built it"

A lot of people do. There are honorable ways, which are most of them, and a few dishonorable ways. That would be Gulfstream, PFJ, or being a scab.

Do you guys actually think paying for a job is an acceptable way to enter this industry? Perhaps the attitudes I'm getting from the masses who talk agaisnt it on the net, and in real life, are not representitive of this thread.

Has nothing to do with if you like your job or not. I like mine, too. There are limits, though, to what steps one should take to make it in this biz. I'm gonna say it's not good for us all, as a whole, if doing whatever it takes to be happy as an individual has no limits. Being a scab so one can be a happy Capt sooner than later comes to mind....