There's no shortage of pilots. There has never been a shortage of pilots. We're not going to see one, either.
There may be a shortage of pilots who are willing to work to get where they need to be.
This career has always required effort and sacrifice. Getting out of flight training and into an airliner has happened, and has happened recently...but is not a realistic view of the world. Traditionally one would instruct for a year or two, seek a job flying freight or traffic watch, fly skydivers on the weekends, ride with friends doing freight runs, do civil air patrol, pipeline patrol, and anything else they could find, and jump from one job to another as experience and opportunity allowed...and ten years later be in a position to aim for the job they wanted.
This is the reality of it. Again the question exists: how committed are you to your career. You stated previously that you're a dispatcher, and you're in the airlines, and you know all about it. You don't, which is why you're being told. You're just not listening.
How committed are you to making a career out of aviation? Not dispatching. Flying. Big difference. If your response is what kind of beer you will drink, your commitment is slim and wanting...and you're not going to make it.
You may recall the story of the great teacher Socrates, who was approached by a student who claimed to want to learn. The story varies, but Socrates held the student's head under water, very nearly drowning him, until the student fought desperately for air. When the struggle was over and Socrates let the student go, he said "When you want to learn as badly as you wanted to breathe, come back and see me again."
How badly do you want to fly?
