How good do you people want it to be?
QF and DJ are hiring at a mad rate!
Some of us graduated with our bare CPLs at a time when the airlines hadn't hired in years and didn't hire for a bunch of years after........ie the early to mid 80s......... that meant no movement anywhere in the industry!
Very sorry that you can't get a job at top pay in a shiny jet/turbo prop/piston twin and therefor feel it's all been a terrible waste........that's life I'm afraid.........there always was way more pilots with CPLs than jobs available.......ALWAYS..........that's why those that make it through a combination of bloody hard work, perserverence and luck feel so strongly about their chosen profession.
The only difference now is the advent of forums like this where we have to listen to the whinging about how unfare the system is!
Chuck.