I'm almost with you there Ultralights. Not very far behind you on pay either....and i only bash car bodies around.
I'd also be happy with a gig on SAAB's with REX, even night freighting, as I'm a night owl anyway. But like you say, the pay they offer doesn't even come close to being lucrative for me to go and finish my tickets. anything much bigger than the saab wouldn't be much fun.....we can leave the boings and scarebuses to those that think thats fun.
Heck even my former apprentice (finished his time in Dec) picked himself up a job recently....55k for a first year tradesman, pretty good.
I often wonder if these smaller regionals realised how many guys are out there that would be willing for a mid-life career change and would stick around 10-15 years or more for the right sort of dollars, instead of them having to retrain their entire pilot base every 2-3 years.