Re: Flying Instructor or Airline Pilot????
For heavens sake, stick with your own profession. The romance of aviation is just a dream. Airlines are rubbish firms to work for. Corporate operators are either rubbish or psychotic. Instructing can be fun, but often not well paid (as previously stated).
What you should do is to develop your existing career and fly for fun. You could even instruct for fun but don't expect to achieve a fulfilling new career in aviation from this late start. You command respect at the moment but you will have to kow-tow to the most idiotic people and requests if you start out in aviation. You are too old to be taken seriously and you will end up disapointed and disillusioned. This is the reality that people seem unwilling to recognise. Sorry to give you the bad news.
PS Please please please dont ask the opinion of the flying schools. They won't tell you the truth.