Actually I felt it was a blast. The sim was at SNA and I got hired at Air California. The check airmen were great and I got hired. They were just having fun.
I was just trying to show the standards 30 years ago were much higher than now. Nobody in my class had less that 5,000 hrs and lots of jet time. When we got hired our first year pay was 700 per mo. One year FO pay was 4,000 per mo.
I am happy the way my career progressed and ended up. We had a great time and the check airmen were our drinking buddies on upgrades to captain. They were for us all the way. They also knew we could all fly before they taught us so their job was easy. Not always the case now.