your best bet is to get a degree and go into management in the finance sector.
or you could go into I.T. good money, good working conditions, pension, holidays, time off etc.
or you could join the lower classes and be treated like a dogs-body in licensed maintenance.
Seriously, my advice would be to join a decent company and get a few courses on popular aircraft,ie boeing / airbus, get some experience and then go contracting. It's the best way to make decent money with no real ties, any place in the world. I contract on the BAe146 and there are jobs all over Europe and even Australia - the world's your lobster.
I could stay cleaner and work normal hours etc in an I.T. job, but for some sad reason I like this job, and people see fit to pay me well to do it, so I shouldn't really complain (but I do anyway, so as not to stand out!)
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Gimme a bottle of anything, and a glazed donut......TO GO!