financing an aeronca champ or chief and logging time comes to mind...

the earlier in life you accumulate TT the better, funny how a few hundred hours can affect your life as a pilot. This can work against you too! Plenty of guys held out for "better" regionals and ended up on furlough while lower time guys went to a lower paying regional and expedited their career.
Kind of a crapshoot I suppose....

Best of luck!

an excellent question for the forum.