Today if you want to become a pilot you need to fork out around £150,000 (this includes a type rating on either A320 or B737). Count it will take you around 2 years to complete all the training. After this if you are lucky you get a job or else you can fork out another £25,000 to do 300 hrs on type to then get a job.
So let's say you worked hard for five years selling cars and bought a couple of houses that appreciated, you sold the housese and you suddenly have £230,000 to use for your pilot training and to live off of for two years while you study hard. At the end of it all there you are flying a B737 for a low cost airline, earning £1,800/month doing 95 hrs flying per month. After a while the novelty will wear off.
Alternatively, a story I hear recently of a guy that after the 5 years as a car sales man and a bit of property investing bought a franchise of an Australian company called Action International and is doing business coaching from home. This investment cost him £15,000 (fifteenthousand pounds) and after 6 months he's earning over £20,000 (twentythousand pounds) a month. This guy has now bought his own airplane and having fun!
This makes me wonder out of the above two people who is the clever one???????