The skydiving people value you so much that they want you to pay for the training and then won't pay you enough to live on .... says it all really! It would probably be a lot of fun flying with your old friends but 2 years down the line you will be 2 years out of training with 300 hours SET but no IFR or multi time competing with people fresh out of the box who, for some reason I don't fully understand, employers seem to prefer.