This is a good post for those who are starting or are thinking about jumping into the airlines. You have to have the right attitude and understand what your objectives are and how you're going to accomplish them and most importantly that you are READY for it. I can't tell you how many people I've seen in classes that should not have been there in the first place. I think it's because people think that that just because they were "hired" and considered employees the airline will not fail them. There is such a big learning curve from flying a 172 VFR vs a jet and quite frankly from my experience airlines aren't sympathetic and they'll give you the bare minimums you have to know. Before you go into training put in the effort to be ready study up on high performance flying and get as much info as you can so that you're at least not going to be clueless when class starts.