Hi and thanks for the replies, sorry I couldn't be so timely in my response!
I appreciate your thoughts and inputs greatly and a change in job is one I won't take light hearted.
My current plan is to try and make it through the next few months and then in summer, hopefully, I'll be able to make some decent(ish) money at instructing and the summer months will give me time to plan for the coming winter.
So its either a non-pilot airline job or try to move up in the instructional world.
I would'nt swap the way I've done things if I had to do it all again, and as pointed out I'll continue to network, keep things current, and keep on improving and sending the old CV!
Maybe its too much to ask, but my biggest hope would be to get into the right hand seat before winter 2012, but thanks for the pointers and it really will help with my plan "B"
cheers