You're timing isn't bad...a lot of folks are or will be hiring. Delta will be hiring 300-600 next year. Southwest will be hiring soon. Check out FltOps.com: Guiding Pilots to their Professional Goals to see the latest list of who's hiring, get your certificates & paperwork in order and you'll be good to go. Also, simply because active duty separates you does not necessarily mean Guard or Reserves won't take you...Guard & Reserve folks can speak up regarding this.

This is an example of Air Force policy that got it wrong...again. Eliminating a valuable resource that took years to train isn't smart. They're still trying to cut back their personnel levels to get to their 330,000 manpower limit (I think they were 4,000 over that at the beginning of the year).