You'd be wise to. Regionals are a career move for anyone just getting in, and it's not a sustainable one.

I ended my search for regionals a while back, right about when hiring picked up. I realized I had friends who had been at regionals for 4 years with no upgrade or job prospects in sight.

Older generations expect us to work in an internship forever now, I guess.

As long as we already control everything else about airlines, why not go full overbearing government and change the labor rules? There shouldn't be a way for companies like Great Lakes to create salary systems so people make 4 dollars an hour living life on the road. Unless I don't understand the pay system, because I don't work for an airline, they are allowed to not pay a 121 pilot who is at work for hours, when the door isn't closed?