Dear prospective pilots, I am speaking to you from the other side. If you finally get picked up on your dream job, enjoy your first couple of weeks cause its downhill from there. A couple of years down the line with 60hour weeks will exhaust you and take away that week old smile from your faces. Several of my elder colleagues tell me that there is no way they can survive to 60 in this business. To make matters worse, you have EASA that will be constantly increasing the FTL to please the lobbyists.
My point is that there is plenty of other jobs that actually will allow you to have a life, and perhaps you will end up there after a few years flying anyway. By all means if you already hold an ATPL, take a shot, but its not so shiny here that you would like to believe.