I'm looking for people's honest opinion on what would be a smart move here...Just this past week I was offered a job to fly corporate jets over in Europe. As it turns out, the dad of my friend from college just bought Eclipse Aviation, and is going to open up an air taxi service over in Europe http://www.aviation.etirc.com/index.php. They are going to be in need of pilots coming this fall, and he offered me a position to work there. I would have to pay for my second in command type rating, but they would pay for all of my schooling and conversions to JAA. Keep in mind I all I had planned for my future was to instruct to get up to 1000hrs and then join the regionals here, pay my time, and the move onto the majors...however this just fell into my lap.

Here's the questions I ask to you guys...

1) Would it effect my chances of landing a job at the majors if I have no prior 121 time, and only JAA flying?
2) Would it make sense to work at the regionals here for a few years, then jump over there in order to take away some of the JAA restrictions? - currently it would take me 7 months to convert everything, and previous air transport hours would reduce that.
3) If I only planned on working there for 2 years, would it make sense to come back here and start out at the bottom of some regional?
4) The future of regionals is starting to look more murky for potential new hires with the price of oil and mergers...is it better to get on now before this rapidly slowing hiring boom ends?