I'm ready to begin this new adventure now, though; I've really missed being involved in aviation.
Probably your best choice. The pay will be roughly twice anything you could make at the Alaska RR. ...and of course, the State of Alaska, which is brimming with cash has poor-mouthed the retirement system into a great big hole.
-------------------- "I have so often...been mistaken that I no longer blush for it."
--Napoleon