Just a few years ago you could join as F/O (or Captain !) and be immedialtely on the 5-4-5-3 roster , no type ratings needed to be paid - just a "bond" for 3 years , and you got , offcourse , straight into your normal F/O's or Capt's salary - even if you had to do the Airbus type rating first.
Unfortunately time has changed thereafter.
So now let's just hope that some day soon this whole cadet-entry crap will be stopped , also because we sometimes have to notice an unhappy cadet and that's not what I come to work with for.
Hopefully management will some day acknowledge this as they are the only ones who can stop this (as there will always be a student willing to sign this cadet-contract.)