I have a couple friends, both top-tier military pilots who have been very happy with corporate jobs for many years (both in TX). They fly billionaires and people of stature like ex-presidents. They got into that because the airlines were hit and miss for our year group, and the clients wanted pilots with really impressive sounding resumes. Those are the unicorns, which are available pretty much by internal reference only, for everybody else it's a real crapshoot.