Are you high or did you graduated high school in '95?
Things now are much different at the commuters. For one the introduction of the regional jet and two the mass proliferation of said jet at the commuter level. The commuters have grown more than 3x their orginial size and more commuters that did not exsist before have come into the biz. Since there has been a mass transfer of flying to the commuter level, the stepping stone that the commuters once was to the majors has been dramatically slowed down and in some cases even halted. In '95 you could not get a job much less an interview with 500 hrs, to be competetive is was more like 2000 hrs.
So explain to me how its the same other than working at the commuter level sucks.