Agreed. Again, it's either a not-so-plush job until things improve OR a complete career change forever. In the latter case, you will be able to convince a decent employer to hire you because, having committed to a career change with all the associated efforts and expenditure, you'll appear unlikely to bolt in the very moment any airline starts hiring. Otherwise, focus your search on jobs which have a high staff turnaround in any times. Call centres, supermarkets and many other places are looking for staff all the time because nobody treats this sort of job as anything long-term.
If neither of those two options looks appealing, the third one is working for yourself. But, again, this requires qualification and experience which might or might not be worth getting if you still haven't got them. Examples of that kind of jobs are tradesman, driving instructor, tutor, maybe also financial advisor or marriage counsellor (both very well suited to the average pilot). Depends on what you can do and have done outside of the flight deck.