Good choice. I will repeat here what I wrote in another thread:
There are excellent corporate jobs out here, but one must admit that those are really rare, very hard to achieve, and very volatile. Those jobs are a very small percentage of the corporate jobs, very small in total numbers of positions. And they compare economically to the average major airline job.
But if you look at the top airline jobs, in the same equivalent percentage, you find pilots with remuneration packages north of 300k and country club QOL .
I can't get there neither at this point of my career, but to give a young kid the advice to not go for the major airline, base on income and QOL, only because that is the best we can do? That is misleading.
Additionally there are many more pilots, that started young enough, holding those top tier airline jobs, while many corporate pilots never make it to a "real job" no matter how many years the flew a mid size.