Originally Posted by freezingflyboy

Graduated high school a few years ago? What, like 15-16? Christ, if you're such a genius why are you getting into aviation? Go be Doogie Howser or something, make tons more money, bang all kinds of hot chicks and fly for fun on the side!

A couple thousand hours SIC time will not get you anywhere unless you want to move laterally to another regional or you have some great "in" at a major that is flexible on the PIC requirements. SIC time is only good for getting a regional job. Once you have the regional job, the name of the game is PIC time. Look, you are going to a regional, right? Whats the point of going to a bad regional and then going somewhere else a year later? Now you are behind the guys who waited a few more months and went to the good regional in the first place. Not to mention you are probably out some dough for a uniform you can't use anymore, expenses you had to eat during training and may have moved some place you don't particularly want to be anymore. Just think for a minute before you jump at that first job that slaps you in the face.