Machlimiter, no you're not an idiot as long as you have the right attitude. A320rider is trying to swim both sides of the swimming at the same time. He has initiated training and now wants to moan about it to. That quite simply doesn't make sense as there are numerous others students some of whom are in even more dire circumstances that just get on with it. Of course it's tough and indeed it should be, you want to climb a mountain then the legs and going to hurt. Perhaps we are unable to think for ourselves or even out of the box as we've spent so long following a predefined syllabus when we graduate at the other end we no longer realise what to do. Examine why your fellow students are getting jobs, what did they do different from yourself? Maybe their approach was different, maybe their attitude, additional skills perhaps they are naturally more clever than you or then again it might be that ellusive of things .... luck.
There seems to be too much aiming for the bullseye these days where students do the minimum training and then expect the most lucrative job of all. However not everyone thinks like this and there are numerous souls that just want a job to have some money coming in and the first step on the rung of this slippery ladder.
As Scroggs recently pointed out many wannabes lack experience in any industry other than that of aviation and even then it's just FTO and not commercial aviation. We are not unique and I'm sure other industries are just as competitive.
If A320rider has exhausted all possible avenues and things still don't work out then he should give up and do something else. If the industry was as unfair as he states then there would have been a great following of A320rider's comments other than the comical provision it is at the moment.