[. I personally am looking forward to working with a Regional comp and even though the pay does suck I love flying too much to turn my back on it so quickly.[/quote]
You wont' love it so much when you're sitting in the right seat for more than two years making less than the person who bags your groceries, have 15 hour duty days, work six days in a row with one or two days off, when scheduling moves your days off, when scheduling juniors you, when scheduling re-routes you, when your bosses threaten you if you call in sick.
And the big kicker for many right now, you don't get to upgrade when you thought you would because your company decided to pull some BS scheme where they can hire somebody new and pay them less to fly your slot as CA. Or when you think the rug has been pulled from beneath you because your company has lost some of its flying and truthfully you don't know if you'll still have a job. Oh! And not everyone is getting hired at UPS, FEDEX, CAL, Airtran and SWA. Typically those companies will hire anywhere from 200 to 600 pilots per year if we're lucky. But.......they each have about 15,000 resumes on file. You know the odds. Not convinced yet? Go talk to some of those boys at Trans States, Air Whisky, Comair or defunct Independence.
Whatever you do don't talk to the beings at GJ. They'll tell you everything is ripe and rosy from where they stand. Sorry to be so negative, but it is what it is.
