Wader,
What's your hurry? I got my first job on a medium jet with 300hrs aged 41. By that reckoning, if you're reasonably competent, you just need to hold your nerve , don't panic, sit tight and keep applying and creating real opportunities. If the Middle East carrier situation is a bubble then you saved yourself huge wads of cash because if it bursts many of us are finished in this game. If it isn't then the future is bright.