Thanks for all the awesome suggestions. Since I am still in college for another year, I can't really leave the area for a job or for long-term training. My goal is to get a CFI job here and then transition into the regionals, but I appreciate all the other suggestions.

I am in the military (the Coast Guard) and everyone's asking me why im not going to flight school for them. Im really set on going to the airlines and since I already paid 80k for civilain college school... don't really feel like going through it all over again with the military.