Always happy to share my little bit of knowledge and help those silly enough to follow in my footsteps.

Those Metro and 1900 drivers all had a minimum of 3-4000+ hours when they got hired onto the Air India 777 contract so they are by no means inexperienced aviators. I don't know of anyone with 1000TT and a 777 endorsement getting hired.

As for me I ended up at Cathay and am just finishing up my simulator phase on the A330.