Victim?
Life is made of choices gentlemen. None of you are victims of your time, you could have chosen not to get married, pursued Mensa memberships or got yourselves financially leveraged as you burdened yourselves with other responsibilities.
It is not the job of an employer to pay for you to become a doctor, a lawyer or a teacher, but once you are one; you are payed for advancement studies by same.
That is to say that somebody who pursues employment and undertakes a responsibility that should've been borne by the employer in the first place, (ie: a type-rating that is only good on one aircraft), cannot sincerely call themselves a professional. Indeed, it is more akin to graft.
Pacific Blue has chosen to go down a failed path of lack of respect for the professionalism of the majority of the pilot population who refuse to engage in such folly.
Your life's choices are your own and are not the fault of changing times, demographics or personal expectations, nor are they the fault of this industry.