Yes do it. It never did me any harm and here I am 10 years later as a Captain on an Airbus. Unfortunately the Airlines like to take low time pilots straight from the likes of Oxford or CTC with a Type Rating, but if you are not in that situation then go for it, you will learn a lot about flying, yourself and people.
Then you can move up the ladder slowly, start flying slightly bigger things until you end up in the right seat of a Jet Airliner. You may not be richer than a pilot who went straight from training into a 73/319 but you will have seen a lot more been more scared and had a lot of fun in the meantime. Good luck