dear farnama:
the perks of the job used to be quite good...maybe work 10 or 12 days a month, great hotels when you did have to overnight. the pay used to be excellent
and then 9/11 happened. and then cheapo airlines happened.
You really have to work pretty hard to get the good stuff and the good stuff ain't what it used to be.
I will put it to you this way...if you can find a job that pays more than 100 k and keeps you home all the time...you might want it over the modern airline pilot.
you could always instruct on saturdays if you have to fly, but then you have certain liabilities if something does go wrong.
I can't tell you what to do...I was offered a deluxe job 30 years ago, not in the airline industry and knowing what I know now, I would have taken it and never looked back, except to buy a used airliner because I would have made that much money.