Close, but really:
1. You commute cross country to reserve to sit in a crash pad with 12 other people hoping to get called for a 4 day so you can sleep in your own room in a paid for hotel.
2. Then after a while you get to commute cross country to that same domicile where you get to do crappy paying 4 days with early shows and late releases so have have to commute in the day prior and out the day after, giving you 1 day at home (if you're lucky) before rinsing and repeating.
3.Eventually you may get based near home where you get to sit reserve with your bag packed, but hoping to not get called.
4. You finally get a line at your home base where you get crappy paying 4 days that show early and release late, so you get to see your family 1 day a week, while trying to mow the lawn, fix the cars, and catch up on everything else at home.
5. You finally get enough hours so you upgrade and move back to steps one through four, hoping to build enough hours at your regional so you can then do steps one through 5 at a LCC,
6.you finally get enough experience to then get to do steps 1-5 at a Legacy.

7. you finally retire at age 65 with a nice retirement fund, but drop dead of exhaustion three months later, leaving your 3 ex wives with their Escalades, convertible T-birds and Porches.