your next best career idea is to become a hairdresser or a plumber?
Don't disparage the jobs. We'd be stuck without plumbers, and you try finding a hairdresser in England today!
PilotLZ; I agree with you about qualifications. I fact I said something very similar way back at the beginning of this thread. I lost my licence medically at 58, and had no back-up qualifications. An experienced and capable airline pilot; yes and ?????