Is 500 hours a magic number for you? Because down here that'll get you a part time gig flying tourists around Vegas in a 44 for $12 bucks an hour,...if you're lucky.
We lowtimers bitch all the time about how things need to change. Thing is, if they really needed to change they would, but since the same old bull**** still (and will always) exist, seems like things are fine, and the only ones in the industry with a problem is us!
,...and the shortage is real this time,...I just know it!