I'd suggest stay in your current profession, and get an instructor rating and work part-time at weekends in a flying club.
As you point out, today is a really bad time to be a commercial pilot in Europe. I don't see things getting any better in the short or medium term, as de-regulation and constant cost-cutting has made the industry so cut-throat and unpleasant to work in. Even when the economic recovery comes, it'll probably just get yet more stressful with no better conditions but fewer slots and longer delays.