stevieboy330 - you were lucky! When I interviewd for CX in 1978, I had 5500hrs total of which 2750 were on commercial jets and I was 37 years old.
The late Mr Hardy informed me that my experience wasn't anything like enough for CX as I was very close to reaching the 'Male Menopause' (it's non existant, but he didn't think so) and was low on jet time! I was service trained.