Hey everyone. First post here on these forums and I have read some great information here.

A little background: I'm 34 yrs old, married, 3 great kids and a life I'm pretty content with, but I miss flying. My grandfather was a pilot, flew the Cleveland Indians back in the 60's, also had a personal Cessna 310 he used as the family plane. I got my private when I was 18 and still in high school. Started college at Ohio State and did some flying there. 2 relatives and some real close friends were just getting into Regionals and they told me to get my ratings....NOW! This was 2000 so I applied to FlightSafety in Vero Beach and my fiance at the time agreed to support me so we packed up and moved to Vero. I blew through the courses finished my Commercial SEL/MEL w IR in April 2002. After that life got in the way. My now wife was offered a great job back in our hometown of Ashland, Ohio. We also just found out she was 3 months pregnant, but we had no health insurance. The 9/11 attacks put my future into a spin and I was very uncertain about it. Fast forward to today and I'm itching to get back in a plane but I haven't flown since I left FlightSafety. I guess I'm looking for somewhat of a career but I'm not sure how to go about it. My wife makes very good money so I'm not pressed to get on a career path right away. We also live in a somewhat quiet town. We are smack between Cleveland and Columbus and the instructors I've talked to don't have many students. I'm not keen on the instructor route because I don't really think it would pay for me to have it with very little students around. I'm also not packing my family up and moving especially with the job my wife has.

So...my plan is to get current again, not sure where yet and we are still in Ashland, OH, but where do I go from there? I have 250TT 55ME. I'm not sure aerial surveys, traffic, etc. would take time that low. I know some regs regarding minimums have changed since 02 so I'm probably a bit rusty at this point. I'm not in a huge hurry and whatever it takes to get me current again will be out of pocket, I do not plan on financing anything. Any other options you all can think of? I would love to fly corporate someday, 121 does not really interest me too much anymore. Thank you for any insight you can provide.