DGA......No laughing matter, I'm in the same boat as you agewise, There seems to be plenty of jobs around at the moment , but don't get too excited , you won't be considered for many of them once they know how old you are. One large freight operator who proudly advertises " equal opportunity employer " gave me the distinct impression that I was wasting their time when I contacted them after seeing about half a dozen ads.
Having said that there are still some older guys around who will consider you. I have knocked back a couple of regional F/O jobs as I consider the wages too low, Yes I know I would have to start off as F/O, but having been employed out of the industry for a while I don't know how you can live on what........$35K-$38K. Some here may say I'm too fussy but I've been around too long to care, plenty of command turbine time, if someone wants to offer me a captains job I'm interested. P.S. forget about Rex, they don't want anyone with any more than 500hrs.!!!