cldrvr,
I hear what you say and I wish all employers were like yours but they are not. I am not going to be hyprocritical here, I paid for my first TR in 2006. I'd worked as an FI for 2 years and was desperate to move on. It got me paid freelance work then eventually full-time. Was it worth it? I think so.
Now with 2 TR's under my belt and a reasonable amount of jet time I was hoping that I'd not have to do it again but I am beginning to lose hope in the current market. The reason I say this I recently lost out on a full-time job because a newbie FO with 250 hours stumped up £25k for a Hawker rating so fast that I didn't even have time to check my overdraft facility!
