Why are they ignorant, cos they said no to your 3,500 hours? Why no atpl? Are you instructing? Did you get through the online tests? Did you do any research and ask yourself what skillsets airlines want these days? Look where BA gets its pilots or Easy and AL. I am afraid in the last 10 years its been all about managing training risk to an acceptable level. Walk through an airport and look at the guys wearing the 2 stripes. They fit a certain mould.