I did four years as an A&P/Install Tech at a repair station prior to my job with a regional. And I love breaking them a lot more than fixing them, despite the 15k/yr pay cut I took! Did about 100 hours of traffic watch (let's here it for 7.25/hr!) part time the year prior to this to keep current and pay for seminole time, also to keep current. Got hired with about 300 hours, which is ridiculous, but I'm not complaining obviously. Never even got my CFI, which I sometimes kind of regret, but I got here without it, so not really.