Just to wind you up a little more PAPI-74, it is actually possible to join as a low hour guy fresh out of flight school with easyJet paying for the typerating
Trade off is you only get paid an allowance of 1,000 pounds
pr. month for six months and after that you are put on "direct entry" salary. It requires jumping through hoops at CTC, though, and paying 4,500 pounds for a course which is basically a typerating without motion and circuits. Still beats the TRSS route though. The company pays for the hotel and food during the TR.
This probably makes you make even more angry smileys
