Thanks for posting your experience and ignore EI-Flyer - he seeks validation of his own decisions as a primary motivation.
You've made a wise decision. Getting into commercial aviation is NOT a lottery. It DOES require some skill and judgement about when to enter. The difference between entering in a boom year and a bust year is lke day is to night. We've seen 4 bust and 2 boom years this decade alone.
Luck is the over riding factor. But sensible judgement is still a small factor and one over which you do have some control.
EI-Flyer may know someone who got a job last year with low hours. I know several. But that doesn't change the FACT that there are hundreds to thousands out there with nothing and no prospects. Only last week Highland Airways went bust putting dozens more pilots with tens of thousands current experience on the dole..
Good luck,
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