That can be challenging... I was fortunate enough to get a corporate job pretty early in my career (about 1200 hours TT). The pay sucked, but it was a fun job with very high QOL. I was also eventually typed, which was great. But as with most corporate jobs, I didn't fly very often (about 250 hrs/year). This can make getting to the next step VERY challenging, as most decent charter or corporate operators want you to have at least 3500 hours. It also would have taken an extremely long time (about 8 years) for me to accumulate 1000 TPIC for a major, as only about half my flying was as PIC. So now I'm at a regional, building time and experience to become marketable for that next career step at a major/corporate or good charter outfit.

Looking back, it might have been more beneficial to have just started at a regional in the first place. But on the other hand, I do have several years of corporate experience to balance out the "airline stink" if another corporate opportunity comes along.