I would say generally go Jet, BUT......

If the ATR airline is expanding (or just has high through put) you might be able to get into training fairly rapidly. A TRI is excellent for job security and good portability to other companies and types in due course.

Anybody notice the 4 year 9 month thread bump....be interesting to see what happen to the original poster Mr Aircowboy....

It would be interesting to hear from aircowboy again... but having a look at his/her posts, I'd say aircowboy chose to move to 737, then considered going e-jet but stayed on the 737 and is now at Norwegian. Only an educated guess. 😉

Think I'm going to go with the tray table on the 320. While the ATR continues to lure me, I'm going to have to let go of her like a failed long distance relationship that never was. Its just not working out !

First ATR, as it was the only offer on the table. Moved to A320 as soon as I could, which meant 6 years and 2500 hours later.
No.
No.
Yes, jetjobs pay more and TP hours are most of the time considered worthless in the jet-operating airlines. If I could, I'd sell some of 5K TP hrs I have.
If you go flying Airbus with mindset "It's monitoring, not flying", your career will be short lived and if you are very unlucky, you might be short-lived too.

Thank you, not dying is actually hard.

I've been an ATR skip before, now 320 FO - my personal advice, get some jet time under your belt ASAP. For reasons unknown, employers don't seem to respect PIC time on a heavy turboprop despite it being way more challenging than flying a jet in many ways. Once you got 500 hrs jet on a 73 or 320, a lot more opportunities open up for you.

Thank you oddball, point taken!