I'm not joking. Sorry.........again I won't tell you don't do it, but I also won't tell you DO IT! I'm single and don't have kids, live in a cheap town, have a roomate and some savings from my previous job. It's hard. About upgrade and that........well, you have a lot of research to do, apparently you don't know much about this industry, but you're asking questions. This forum has a lot of good info, and some very negative info. Be careful. I prefer to be a decent payed FO, than a bad payed FO with the promess of a quick upgrade. I came to Pinnacle thinking about quick upgrade. I was naive. I've been treated like crap and the whole quick upgrade thing could change overnight, specially with the possiblility of NW/DAL merging.