Originally Posted by MaxQ

SeaLand

My two cents. I am going to do what I criticize...offer opinions(not advice) regarding someone else's life decisions.
I am always puzzled at the certitude many pilots have as to what career/flying decisions other people should make, even though they don't know them.

There is no stability/security in any flying job. The only major airline I ever worked for shut down in the middle of the night while I was on a trip. Another airline used to brag how they had never lost money, even during the gulf war, then it was had never furloughed, then eventually bought by a leveraged buyout company (to avoid a takeover by another airline) then eventually sold and liquidated. Anyway, you get the idea....there are no "for sures" and history in this business suggests that this temporary period of prosperity will not last.

So my opinion....regional flying can be rewarding and satisfying. If it isn't so for a given individual, it is often due to looking into the future to the detriment of the present. There is much to be said for achieving contentment with having "enough". Most of us got into this because we love flying airplanes and have a love for the profession. Unfortunately we sometimes let other opinions as to what we should do diminish our enjoyment of what we are doing.
So...the world according to MaxQ(a bit of it anyway)...march to your own drummer, to thine own self be true.
Money doesn't mean much unless you don't have any.