If you have the expectation of having an employer see you through the productive life of 30 years of employment, and then enough time to fulfill any retirement promises, then don't pursue airline pilot work. Ask Maslow how fun it is to do "something you love" when you starve doing it and worry every day you won't be able to do it tomorrow.....I'd love to do something I hate if it paid me decent and didn't go away tomorrow. just some nuggets of peanut gallery obvious.