Keep doing what your doing and stay positive, you can get a bit discourged along the way. If you keep reading on this website you'll get real discourged. The industry is down right now, but it will swing back up, it's like a ten year swing (up and down). Just hang in there. At you stage, I wouldn't read this site too much. Even at 33 you can still come out good. Get on with a regional in the next couple years and then you'll probalbly be with a major by the time your 40. Thats 20yr, might even be 25yrs if they move up the ret. By the time you get your hours, everthing in the industry might be headed in the rights direction. THINK POSITIVE. If flying is really what you want to do your going to have to ***** yourself for the next 5 to 7 years. Best advise is just stop reading negitive aviation and just keep positive in what you want to do. Start reading all this crap, before you go to a regional, so you don't go to a bottom feeder like Mesa or Freedom, ect.