No way would I recommend the airline pilot career path. For the amount of money and the radiation that you are exposed to, I don't care how many days off you may get. It's simply not worth it. You may be lucky enough to make top pay, but money is pointless if you are dead from cancer a few years after you retire.

The amount of time/money/effort involved in certification, as well as the pointless airline HR hoops you have to jump through to get hired, can be better spent doing something else and use the income to fly for fun.

I do my best to discourage people from getting into this junk.