The issue at hand is getting through the regional process as fast as possible. I would suggest working for one of the Kanodia owned companies, you will stay hungry, irritated, ant that will fuel your need to get hired at a your next step.
OTH, you could go to a semi comfortable regional, live in a semi comfortable domicile, make a semi comfortable wage and then when you decide that semi something isn't cutting it, you can apply to the next step and swing the gear for the guy who powered through the regionals because it sucked, bigly. All your semi's will have cost you only hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars at the end of your career......