Cutting down the quotes
wel
u have decent gear that can make u trans less than 3 days(or 1 day........)
but i think for beginner..it's worth it to get to job 50 since the journey is long 
Transcendent characters take me several weeks, I've never made a trans in under a month (or bothered to, though that's not the point).
Please don't assume I'm part of that group who does stuff like that. If I did, you'd probably see me selling characters (which I hate).
Generally, if it's a character I'm not going to use for WoE or PvP, I'll stop it at job 40/41(I think for Archer? I forget).
I'm not going to use the extra bolt skills anyway, so I'd never take a non-trans mage to 50.
It's just a waste of time, to me.
