My current gig flying cargo is the best balance I have had in 16 years. Two or three tours per month varying from 3 days to 9 days with the ability to request what you want, mostly heavy crew and some medium/short sectors in the middle to balance LH/ULH bits. Lots of time off in between.
The downside is not much money compared to pax flying but being in the twilight of my "career" with most of the big bills paid I don't care that much. Keeps it out of the hands of HMRC. The upside is about half the flying hours per year which more than compensates and allows the time to generate cash elsewhere.
I can't imagine ever going back to flying people around and doing 6 trips/month LH or six on/one off on SH unless yet another redundancy forced my hand. And even then I would have to think hard about it.
Just an opinion.