What Reddo said neatly encapsulates a typical wet ink CPL situation. No matter how hard, long, expensive or difficult it seems on the way to getting a professional licence + all the add-ons, always bear in mind that that's the easy bit!
Even in the UK where the market is skewed differently there is still an equivalent to Reddo's tale post-licence issue for most people. The world is littered with little used licences from people who gave up.
On the bright side many, many of the pilots who you see today were in the same situation but kept slogging along until they got somewhere.