Originally Posted by Captain Bligh

There are hundreds of ways to build flight time. Go fly freight or flight instruct. Build time as a first officer at one of hundreds of entry level commuter jobs under a Capacity Purchase Agreement.
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I finished my training a year and a half ago, I only know two people who got jobs, both with seasonal aerial survey, one is on unemployment and plans to go back this season, the other isn't returning and is interviewing for jobs outside of aviation because of the difficulties paying back his loans. The people I know trying to instruct don't have enough students and aren't building significant time, obviously they arent making money. They are no jobs, and i mean NO jobs.
I think the next crisis aviation is setting itself up for is a lack of qualified entry-level pilots. I am sticking it out for better times, but don't think most people would consider the sacrifices required to be in any way reasonable. I know everyone will say you can make a pilot in 6 months, but it is prohibitively expensive and the despair created in the current generation of up and coming pilots will be hard for potential canidates to overlook, it is hard to look on it as a viable career in todays state. The gap between entry-level aviators and senior pilots who have found success doesn't appear to be connected any longer.