Originally Posted by
TheWeatherman
It does not matter what path you take. You should be taking the one that gets you in this industry an seniority the quickest. Any other path is foolhardy unless it is something you really want to do.
Not quite that simple. Different paths have different risks.
A military FW aviator with a clean record is virtually a shoe-in for a legacy job. But there's a lot of attrition on the way to acquiring several thousand hours of mil time.