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Why ARE you leaving a six-figure job to start at a regional? Unless you’re a military pilot, I don’t understand why you would do this.
Regional and even mainline QOL isn’t as competitive to non-flying careers as it used to be: 4-5 legs a day, commuting, poor entry pay, deicing, short layovers, dealing with the craziness of post-CV travel, and the overall instability of the industry, I’m not sure why anyone other than military (who have or will have a pension, and have few other marketable skills) would want to get in this industry, especially from a six-figure career.
Clearly you’ve never had another job certainly not one that pays $250k. Flying is literally the easiest job, with the most days off, and the least amount of “after hours” work I’ve ever had. Any six figure job in the US you’re chained to the email machine, if you feel like that as a pilot you’re just a nerd that needs to relax or exit the training department.
There’s literally only a handful of people in any given department of a F500 (director/VP) that make what thousands of 12 year CAs make at any legacy make, much less wide body CAs (even wide body FOs). You don’t know how good you have it.