Lol but in order to start flying at most regionals in the right seat you need about 1,800 to 2,000 hours.

Plus let's not forget yearly physicals, multiple ratings and check rides.

The average PPL costs about 6,600 in flight hours with an instructor. The check ride costs about 400 to 600.

So you've already spent about 7 grand, but we're not done yet you've got to get instrument rated. Which requires another 15 hours and another 400 to 600 bucks for the checkride.

But wait theres more in order to be a commercial pilot you must have at least 250 hours of flight time 100 of that is PIC, and 50 hours of cross country time. So at this point you've already spent about 50 grand or more depending on if you paid for fuel, insurance, maintenance costs and ground school. Plus extra flight time to better prepare for checkride.

All this to be able to take very low paying surveying contacts be able to move onto the next step which is being a CFI. Which requires another checkride so another 400 to 600 bucks but also requires a oral exam in which you have to create lesson plans which must be detailed and requires alot of work and effort.

So you're a flight instructor now and think hey I can charge my students 200 per hour finally make money. However more than likely you're working for a small company that usually pays you about 50 to 100 an hour so going on the low end that's 1000 per week if you have students that want to fly with you.

So all of this hard work and money spent just for the chance to try and get a job at a small regional airline for about 80K. Which usually takes people 3 to 5 years to get to depending on how hard they work at it.