Originally Posted by
rudestuff
A decade??? You must have some serious distractions but well done for sticking to it. I still assert that a motivated, non-smoker, non-drinker with no kids could achieve a fATPL in 2-3 years starting with no money and using 50/50 borrowing and saving.
I didn't have the luxury of living at home since my parents moved around quite a bit before retiring in the sticks. I'm very reluctant to borrow, there's probably a fair few who did in Autumn 2019 who then lost the day job/had a severely reduced income during the pandemic. I wonder where they are now? What I do have though is an enjoyable non-aviation career which I'd want to do for the next 35 years if aeroplanes didn't exist.
What I'd do is go part-time after another couple of years in my current job at the tail-end of the inbound recession and possibly do modular then. If there's lots of fully-funded schemes it may be better to wait a bit longer, we'll see.