The ultimate goal would be airlines, although I was not planning on knocking out 1500hours in a warrior then applying to the airlines
The initial goal is pretty much what Aviator stated, get PPL then use it to build time for IFR and commercial license. Then hopefully get a start flying professionally, either selling it on at this point, or if funds permit, keeping it and flying extra hours when I could. If it took me a while to get my initial hire, then I could also use it to build hours following commercial, which is where my concerns come in. With a large number of hours flying XC mainly for just hours building, would that be frowned upon?
If I ever made it to regional, would they frown upon having, say 500 of the 1500 min hours built up in this manner? Would a pipeline/cargo/whatever firm care if a larger percentage of my hours got me to their mins? Say 300 out of 500?