Takin' a chance of sounding sarcastic...
I must be in the wrong business if conditions are as described in the above posts, that you invest $50,000 in an education only to pay for your job.
IF everybody chose to NOT pay for their training i.e paying for that right seat to burn a little Jet-A and log some turbinetime, the companies would all have to pay their employees.
then again, IF if's and but's were candy and nuts.......