Hmm...my job involves my being checked every six months. I'm not allowed to make a mistake - and a mistake would potentially cost my company a fortune. I have to work awkward shifts, I'm never really off-duty, and frequently have to spend long periods away from my family.
But I'll bet you anything that my salary isn't even half of a pilot's.
Sorry for the lack of sympathy but I get fed up of hearing pilots moan about their salaries and their hard-time professions. If it's that bad, why did you bother when you could have had a family-oriented, 9-5 job with a modest-but-liveable income?
No-one held a gun to your head to do your job, in the same way that no-one held a gun to mine.
There's no such thing as a pilot shortage. Don't like it? Stop whining and leave, and make room for someone who genuinely wants the job.