PS:70+ million sado-masochists cannot ALL be wrong!
Wanna bet?
The issue with Ryanair is that about 50% of their pilots don't work for Ryanair but come in through Brookfield, a contract agency / specialist. The ones that I know don't feel that they are the best paid in Europe by any means. Having said that there is nothing intrinsically unsafe about Ryanair if you discount taxi-ing like a looney in case you're a bit late.
Conversions are obviously a possibility.
Just so long as the candidate forks out for it themselves, along with their uniform et al.