Timbo, why would you want a pay cut like winning the lottery?
You must have me confused with your Dad. Since all the Majors declared bankruptcy, cut our pay 42%, flushed our retirements down the toilet, airline pilots don't make anywhere near what they used to. I made a lot more in 2004, as a 757 domestic pilot than today, as a 777 International pilot.
Oh, and I had $1.4 Million in my retirement plan in 2004, all gone now.