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zayuuh, I have a few points for you:
My first bit of advice would be to remove the emotion. Passion for aviation is certainly a key to success in many parts of the world. Without it, it is hard to grind through the lower stages of your learning and career. But your passion can be preyed upon, and not always by others. Many pilots have been given promises of a future, only to find their money was taken from them from a flight school manager or an instructor who was more interested in you giving them money than them giving you instruction. In the same breath almost every flight instructor has had that one student whose passion exceeded their ability, and that student wasted tens of thousands of dollars bouncing between instructors, each of whom tried (and failed) to get the student to realize flying wasn't for them.
I'm not saying don't enjoy your training or take pride in the accomplishment once you're done, not at all. I'm saying you need to temper your feelings when you are looking for a flight school and certainly more so while you are undergoing instruction if you want to breed success. Your stronger emotions will blind you to the reality of the school or your own performance. Take your statement that an FAA or other licenses are crazy expensive as an example. That's apparently your whole rationale for discounting them. But have you stopped to ask yourself why certain licenses or flight schools are more expensive than others? Could they be more globally recognized? Might present you more opportunities sooner than others? Might they be easier to convert later on should you need to move and obtain a new license? There is a saying: you have to spend money to make money. Doing something as cheaply as possible can lead to just as poor and costly an outcome as going the most expensive route. Price is both the most important and least important aspect of your flight training. Least important because at the end of the day, we all walk out with the same thing in hand: a license to pilot an aircraft. Most important because other than a house, this is likely the most costly investment you'll ever make, and it will take up to a decade to see any return on investment.
My second bit of advice starts off with a statement: Only you can answer what you want from this industry. Is this a passion project where you want to fly on the weekends or do you want to make this a career?
You write as though you want this to be a career, but there are so many different options within the term "career" that your aim will fall short if you don't have a clearly defined end-target. This end-target (or goal) will outline everything else you do. Your end-goal will also allow you to set up your other goal: short, medium, and long term. You are working on a short term goal of picking a flight school cannot be successful without that long term goal. So you have to work backwards. Where do you want to be in 5 years? Once you've clearly defined that, then you can ask what steps are required.
But a word to the wise: once you've picked your long-term goal don't lose sight of it, but don't also focus so much on it that you lose sight of what's of immediate importance. I say this from the experience of a few students who wanted to be airline pilots. They wanted it so bad they dressed, acted, and pretended to be airline pilots while at the flight school. It would have been funny if it wasn't so sad given their performance. They could tell me everything about an a 747, yet they could not consistently make proper radio calls in the circuit or land within the touchdown zone. They couldn't do this because they spent all their time focused on the far future, not the next lesson.
i really am grateful to you, you took your time and answer my question, I'm really thankful to you. i understand every word and every advice you have given me. to give you my basic background. a lot things had happened and then i had to stop my education and all then one day it felt like, what am i without this little dream i have? from when i was a kid, i always wanted to become a pilot, even tho my knowledge wasn't even that great about aircraft and all that, then something came and made me realise that, the dream makes me who i am. there is no value here if, if i don't outshine from everyone here, i never wanted to settle down for less. as you said my dear, this is my dream and i want to build a career around it. i am not very emotional guy tbh, but it just came out today and then deepseek brought me here, i want help cause there is a lot of things i don't know, but my aim is to fly high, I'm saying this because i don't tell people usually this sort of stuff but today i choose to be this way. so i need your advise, cause i refuse to be the way i am now, i need a advice what license i should pursue and what academy would be good for me, cause at least i understand this much that, if i follow your advice i will be in good hands. not like I'm emotional or anything it just, i liked your perspective and everything you said is logical and not rational with great experience so that's why. you think, you can help me out with some information?, if so that would be great.