I just wanted to say again that we are living the worst depression since the II World War, and of course no one is going to give jobs (let alone low-hour pilots) like 3 years ago. I already fly for an airline, and the majority of people I fly with have had to fight A LOT to get where they are. I mean years and years of instructing, building hours in remote places (not just the U.S), lots of financial problems which of course affects family life etc....
I can assure you, that if they had had the opportunity to wait those "terrible" 2 years for an airline job they would have done it extremely happy. They would have saved 6 or 7 years of problems that way...