Three lions
I have to admire your optimism but as said above five years is a long time in aviation I have had three airlines go bust under me in three years and another one a long time before that, at a rough guess I am owed IRO £150 K by these airlines in terms of back pay and contracted redundancy payments that I will never see.
Any one embarking on a career as a pilot must have a plan B ( mine is actually a plan B1 !) for when at the whim of some airline policy maker the recruitment policy changes and pilots with your training background are no longer flavor of the week. It should be remembered that pilot recruting is the top of the tree as far as the human resorces department of concerned and each time the head of pilot recruting in HR changes the new boss is keen to introduce some new and updated policy just to be seen to be doing something, those who meet the last HR bosses targets are likely to be tomorrow's fish & chip wrapping.