You'd better be damn careful about what 135 outfit you go with. You have ones like Seagate with 9 on and 5 off or Southern Air Services with their "no set time off" for just two great examples. As I said, there's some bottom feeder 135 outfits that will hire no-time pilots as SICs, pay them nothing, treat them like crap while dangling the "carrot" of jet time (and they do the same for PICs as far as low pay and poor QOL). Also, 135 time does not necessarily make you competitive for the majors. With the number of 121 pilots in the market place today, most majors want to see 121 time, not 91 or 135 time. Not saying one type of flying is better than the other -- you just need to figure out your ultimate career goals and what fits best for you. Also, I think a lot of 121 pilots have the misconception that all corporate flying is big bucks. That is not at all true. You may have a higher starting wage (I know of no corporate flying that pays by the hour -- it's all salary whether you fly once a month or every day), but pay raises and opportunities for advancement can be very limited. As an example, a recent corporate job I know about involved a one aircraft, two pilot shop. They were looking to start someone in the low 40s with limited annual pay raises, no benefits and the only way to move up would be if the chief pilot decided to leave -- even then they brought in a new chief pilot over junior guy that was there when the last chief pilot left (I suspect that had something to do with that guy leaving and opening up the junior spot again). The grass is not necessarily greener on the corporate side. There's a few very high paying, great QOL corporate jobs out there, but for almost all of those you need to be a legacy or happen to be in the right place at the right time.