The job is good if you like sitting doing nothing for around 80% of your time, so it is great job if your brain activity does not mind being in a very inactive environment.
If this is what you are doing, then you are not doing the job.
So it's a great job to have, if you like doing nothing for hours and hours, except stare out of the windows and admire the view, however after a while that also gets pretty familiar.
If this is what you are doing, then you are not doing the job.
Put a stop to P2F and Cadet programs - require minimum 1500 hours or more to fly for an airline. Why? some may ask. This is one of the main factors with the industry, as Ryanair started this, making pilots pay for their own training etc. It created a base of available pilots that is ENDLESS!
Airlines are with this in Paradise - in 3 - 4 months they can train a monkey and pay him peanuts! And there is an endless source of pilots available.
Now you might ask what about all the newbies, don't they also deserve a chance?
Of course they do, but unless they are on a program similar to BA etc., they should build up their experience over time, when reaching the hours they will have gained invaluable experience and be ready for airlines - this will be their recruitment procedure, and there will be jobs created on every level - as it would mean all the guys today with thousands of hours on MEP and SEP instructing etc., would have priority when employed, ahead of the hoards of people who exist with Low hours.
Why is BA's cadet programme any different from those of other airlines that use the same or similar resources? Those
quality airlines with cadet programmes usually utilize the same training resources. Selection is made at an early stage thereby avoiding what you describe as "training monkeys."
It will after a while settle in to a natural stream - and it would enhance safety with the airlines, as these would be pilots with actual experience of hands on flying over a period of time.
The safety statistics in both absolute and relative terms have never been as good as they are these days. The airlines do have pilots with experience, they are sat in the left seat. Those in the right seat are often building up that experience.....just like you?
There are good jobs and good employers. The competition for those jobs is, has been, and likely always will be, fierce. The less desirable employers are often utilized as stepping stones to better things. That has always been the case as well.
There are those that listen, and those that don't. Plenty of people have been describing the hard and soft realities of the evolution of the marketplace for many years. I am sure that plenty of people absorb that advice and use it or discard it as a small part of their own planning strategy. A few will simply rail against everything that doesn't fit in with their own mental model of the training regime and the industrial and employment realities. Once they discover those models are made of ice cream, they blame all and sundry for the puddle of cream they then find themselves sitting in.
Survival is usually about the ability to adapt to the environment you find yourself in, rather than demanding that the environment should adapt itself to you. Legend has it that King Canute discovered this fundamental point almost a thousand years ago.