1. If you haven't already, check out Doug Taylor's website jetcareers.com. Not bad info for aspiring pilots. Doug admits that he had it lucky. After working as a CFI, it only took him two years working at a regional to land a job at Delta. That is VERY atypical and unusual. As a result, Doug's website tends to lean towards painting an overly rosy view of the airline pilot career. Nonetheless, some good info and message boards there.

That will be counterbalanced by:

2. Plow through as many threads here as you can. You'll get a fast education on most aspects of regional life (schedules, lifestyles, training, airlines, bases, landing an interview, etc.). Now at the same time, you may have noticed, this board tends to have a high proportion of grumpy, disgruntled pilots who like to complain a lot. While there's certainly a lot to complain about, you kind of have to turn up the squelch a bit and filter some of that out.

Both sites speak to the truth, just from very different perspectives. Between them, you'll eventually get a pretty decent idea of what's it's like to be a regional pilot -- good and bad -- and you can make your own decisions.

Good luck.