I am a former TSA pilot who got furloughed in the second round of furloughs back in July and I am now enjoying flying the CRJ for SkyWest. TSA isn't the terrible place some people ou there make it out to be, but you can certainly do better. Given your time, I might recommend holding out for a carrier that doesn't have awful relations with their pilots, and that will upgrade you sooner than 4-5 years. As previously pointed out, your time should get you in the door at ExpressJet, a company which took a ton of the TSA furloughs, and after a few more months teaching you'd have the mins for just about any other regional out there, including SkyWest who is hiring like crazy at the moment and I would certainly recommend them over TSA. But like I said, Trans States has decent pay, decent QOL, no training contract, and very good people to work with on the line. It's an ok place to be, especially for someone with low time, I just think that you could do a whole bunch better without teaching all that much longer.