Its really funny reading all your guys comments, i'm taking the general assumption that most people replying on this thread are european based.
In Australia unless your one of the very very lucky ones, who get a rare sponsership with QF, you are bound to GA for the first couple of years of your aviation life, if you tried to tell an Australian GA pilot that your spent your 40k have approx 200hrs, been waiting 6 months for an Airline job, they would just laugh at you, get an instructor who has been plugging away at it for a couple of years with over 1000hrs instructional time on a bad day, they would just punch you in the face.
