If you are considering the Ryanair route, then good luck, you will need it.
I went to an open day a few months ago. To be really honest apart from the sim and cabin they use for training it was all fluff. Ryanair love to tell you how good they are. Then you get the talk about the job by two pilots, YYZ was one. After that the Job talk and info about Brookfield. The main man kept saying that Ryanair's favourite word is 'Tough'
I felt that this was all a very expensive route into a airline job.
Funnily enough, here I am a few months later being paid to fly 700's and 800's.