Quite strange it's acceptable to most to pay for an advanced university degree...say an MBA so they can be promoted into management...(quite common), but paying for a type rating to extricate one's self from the piston/turboprop ghetto is extremely unacceptable....paying for one's line training/ hours...yes not good because the employer is realising revenues while the traininee is paying in as all....but a type rating?...debateable