What and duffster,
If your eyesight is OK and you can walk in a straight line without falling over, go and join the Winged Master Race!
Stay out of engineering unless you are prepared for a life of endless shift work, low pay and contempt. I've become immune to the insults because I love aeroplanes, love the interesting challenge of problem solving and am addicted to the rush of fixing the unfixable in less time than is humanly possible. Its a hard life but we do it because we find it fascinating.
In other words, its an attitude thing. I suspect that if you have to ask the question, then our kind of life isn't for you.
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Through difficulties to the cinema