If you're truly interested in only flying CONUS (like me- I can't wait to leave long haul behind) have you considered the LCC's like jetBlue, Spirit, Frontier, VA?
Spirit's pay scale, for instance, is pretty comparable to narrow body pay rates at the legacies (UAL and AAL, anyways), with great QOL to boot. And I've got plenty of military friends at jetBlue who love it there...
Granted, you might end up doing some Carribean and shallow South American turns, but that's not really international. It's like flying into Miami!