Doctors.. like us.. right place right time.. difference between being a vascular surgeon and family doc... nothing wrong with the family doc.. but having a small practice is tough. Insurance companies are cheap, medicare/Medicaid payouts are tough and you need a dedicated staff member just to sort it all out. Office space where I live is extremely expensive. My friend is lucky if he clears 100k a year in his practice. That said, there are plenty of ways he can earn a living if he wanted to end his practice or stop practicing medicine all together. He can work in pharmaceuticals, a health director, or clinical trial coordinator. Hell, he is thinking about just opening a diner he hates his job so much.

That being said, AAG strategy is at a pivotal point and I am not sure they will be able to get in front of the 8 ball. Once they start hiring outside of the flow, I feel they will need to based on the rumors I have heard, the whole flow and the WO second rate pilot scale will take a big hit.

The WO model and second rate pay scale is great when pilots are in demand and supply outweighs need. In a RAA posting the RAA members required a bit over 5000 total new hire pilots for the 2015 calendar year. 2015 only produced less than 3000 new hires with over 35% of them being lateral moves. Therefore, there were only approximately 2000 non prior 121 new hires for RAA members. Sorry I can't look up the link or copy the data right now but its in the RAA website... public area I believe.
I would say just keep applying where you want to go every month whether your a captain or FO. Its only a matter of time when someone will get desperate enough to hire a shlob like me.