im in the situation where Lakes is the only airline that would probably even look at me now with 39ME hours. The shcool i teach at has no real ME potential. Im slowly building it now by riding along sometimes in a C414. For me to really get to 100ME in a decent amount of time would be to spend the money to time build in a light twin. We all know that would run close to 10k.

So for me assuming i eventually get called for an interview and get an offer. Its stay at my current CFI job making probably 15k a year, getting only a trickle of ME time from outside sources. Or go to GLA make about the same amount first year but building ME and TT and potentially becoming a captain right when i turn 23. Which could potentially depending on retirements and all that jazz, put me in the majors by my mid 20's. To me i think it would be worth the hard years at lake in the long run for my career overall.