The important thing about Ham Phisted and Grass strip's v useful posts are that they show an alternative to the "all or nothing approach". As suggested you might like to get your PPL and add to your qualifications and experience as you want to and actually enjoy the journey. As an aside, "Did you enjoy your training?" would make a very interesting Wannabe Forum poll!
Doing it this way you should able to maintain a better balance between flying and other equally important commitments in your life and at the end of it you're likely to be less in debt. Being older, you probably aren't looking for the same things from a job as a younger person, which would leave you open to so many more ideas about how to make a living from flying aeroplanes. See if you can find an overlap between the jobs that you would like to do, the jobs that you can realistically get and the jobs that you can afford to take: that's your target.
