I can see where all of you are coming from, but I know a guy who was told the same thing (take the first job offered no matter what) by an old airline guy who's been in the business forever. He didnt' work at a ******ty, airline, but he is so old-school that he doesn't keep up on all the nitty-gritty stuff in the regional world. The problem is when those old guys givin this advice are gone (which won't be long), those of us who are left will be the one's who do know what is going on...so maybe that stuff might not apply. I onced asked some advice from an old pilot working for netjets international, and he didn't know what i was talking about when I talked about the regionals (like who is who and stuff like that)...just because some captain at a major hasn't kept up with GoJets doesn't mean that the next generation of pilots is just going to forget about that kind of stuff....just a thought