Anything you want to know about CAL has been posted in this thread... take the time and read it through!
If you are flying a jet somwhere else... you might want to ask yourself what can you possibly gain by going to CAL except perhaps a headache.
If you do not have any heavy jet experience, you are going to be in for a rude awakening... and will be asking yourself why you dropped $20g's and locked in for 5 years.