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I hate to use the 'cyclical' word again, but professional aviation definitely goes thru seasons. Now, it's definetely winter, but there's a spring thaw somewhere around the corner. It might be a few quarters or a few years, but as long as you hope for spring, but dress for winter, you're going to be alright.
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I guess the grass is always greener, huh? There are some definitely pluses to an aviation career, and the brochures always emphasize those. They don't bother to tell you that oh, by the way, after you blow $50K with us (even though we told you it'd be only $35K but that's assuming that you get done with the absolute minimum hours the FAA requires, which virtually nobody does), you'll be out there fighting for a CFI job which pretty much guarantees you'll be eating ramen noodles for a while.
And folks, no matter what you do for a living, people who do other things will always tell you how easy you have it. I used to deal with people who said, oh, you sell advertising? It must be so cool to go to all those trade shows and sit in a booth and to just call those people back after you get to the office. Of course, they never mentioned that as soon as the economy goes down the tubes, you get laid off even if you are good at what you're doing, they never mentioned that a lot of people just come for the free goodies you're giving out and don't want to hear from you after they get back home, and that you've got a boss breathing down your neck bugging you if you don't put a sale in the tracking system every few hours.
Advertising and aviation. Man, I am a masochist, huh?