funkyt111
As one who has been flying in both the Military (22 years) and Commercial Airline world (19 years) with over 12,000 hours I do feel I can comment.
The service flying is not just being a pilot but being a serving member of the Armed forces with all that goes with it including accepting the risk to life and limb - to say nothing of the restrictions that the Service life places upon you.
Being a commercial pilot is driving an aircraft from A to B and managing the sytems and crew to ensure it is done efficiently and safely as possible. Haiving done it for a long time there are the daily variations but in the main it can become routine. The only career progression is towards training and /or management but takes a while to acheive. The life it brings with it the responsibility for those you carry and work with. There is less restriction, but an equal amount of disruption, to your lifestyle.
Given some of your responses above I agree with WWW that there is little chance of you beating the dedicated and focussed applicants to become a military pilot. It is a very specialised recruitment. As to your original post, the Military can be cut at a whim and no doubt the Future Carrier will be a casualty in the next couple of years with a reduction in pilot numbers.
The commercial flying recruitment at the moment is dire. The commercial world tends to be cyclical and at the moment it is bouncing along the bottom. Airlines are suffering and there will no doubt be casualties there also. In the majority of cases (but not all) Airlines work on seniority based on joining date so job security can either be based on seniority or meritocracy. Either way you are as good as your last check-ride.
Take your choice - but listen to what others have said before jumping into what is obviously the unknown for you.
HWB