These days you can get the 1500 hours any way, unless you're a career criminal your first regional will not care as long as you fog a mirror. Go to Alaska, drop divers, tow banners, patrol pipelines, do survey work, make quadruple what you do at lakes, put a bit away for the first year or two at your regional. But by all means do not go to Lakes or get caught up in the few PFT schemes still around.
If that's not good enough and you really need to fly something "shiny" go fly DA20s full of car parts.