Originally Posted by ToiletDuck

Now pretend you have 250hrs, of which about 175ish will be PIC. You can go to a regional, make $20k-50k, and will fly about 900+hrs a year. All this time will be sic. You'll be at that regional for a few years before you upgrade. Lets say 3-4 years possibly by the time you get there. Now you've spend all that time training and up to 4 years BEFORE you start logging more PIC. Now you need another year and a half to get to that 1500pic. That could be 5.5yrs you've been at a regional making crappy pay JUST to get to where the other guy already was who was a CFI for a year.