Gave up the airline life for a regular job and would love to get back into it...but here's the key, I'm in a good career field making a decent salary with earning potential up into the $130k range without the need for additional promotions etc...not a lot of incentive to leave this industry despite my love of aviation.

If aviation was offering decent salaries, good retirements, and something that remotely resembled job security then I'd jump on it...what's odd is that it's a very "secure" job with very "insecure" companies...the world is going to need pilots until they either make the aircraft unmanned or develop a new form of transportation, but companies that operate so near the breaking point really doesn't allow this reality to prove true.