Wow, Casey. You've spent all this time & energy railing against the man and being happy to get out with your considerable compensation package, only to be begging to get back in the door? Seems like your current gig would be wildly superior to a piecemeal reserve gig, with the pay and the flying. Why bother?
My reasons-
1- Because flying a T-45/6/57 is mo fun than dragging 8 roughnecks to a job site in a stripped out King Air when I get to do that. They puke if you do a break. Ask me how I know this. I'm not allowed to do short breaks anymore.
2- With 11 years AD, a reserve retirement is nothing to sneeze at.
3- I get a fuckton of paid time off (2-3 months a year on top of vacation) and I'll have too many motorcycles in the garage if I don't find something to do in my spare time.
4- From talking to reservista friends, it's 100% of the fun with 10% of the bullshit. I find that to be an acceptable ratio.
5- As a reserve IP, there will be less of my life dedicated to answering why AD3 Dicknose got another DUI when he was just released from jail for his third one yesterday, and why is AM1 not paying his child support, and why didn't AZ3 pass the PRT (Again) than it was on AD, which started getting really old after about year 6 of being a DIVO, and more of the teaching a ENS/JG/2nd/1stLT that wants to be there how to fly. For all my shortcomings, flying, or instructing has never been a weak point. I have the boarding rate and grades to back that.