Pilots on the whole are still relatively well paid and while it may not be the job it used to be, it could be a whole lot worse - try holding down an £80-100k job in the business/commercial world and you will find out what pressure and stress really is. I have friends at director level working 12-14 hours per day 6 days a week just to keep their heads above water.
Yeah, but a lot of pilots are not on £80-100k and if they are not on that now they never will be. Many of us have made and make other sacrifices that those in the commercial business world do not have to make. How much did they pay for their training? As for pressure and stress, being in the kind of debt that many pilots are in combined with the lack of job security and career progression has to rank way up there in the stress stakes.