Evening Guys,
thanks for your advice and guidence its much appriciated, but i think i should explain myself,
I left school in 2002, i then went onto college to do sports studies, never thought i could be a pilot with the grades i already attained, so i never even concidered this as a career. I didnt like the sports course from the beginning so i dropped out in October of that year.
I went to work for my dad who has his own glass business, i started to pick up leading off one of my dads employees, i got rather good, doing different logo etc just for personal use. I always played flight simulator though from a young age, still never thinking i could become one one day, i then started to get into aviation big time ie Spotting and browsing PPRUNE. By the off chance i went onto CTC Mc Alpine to see what their requirments where for cadets, i found that i had all their GCSE's requirments (C and above), English(CC) and Science(CC) but not Maths(E), As you can see i hated Maths at the time but i thought i could get at least a C if i put the time and effort in.
I had a long chat with my dad, and he said just go for it, so i did i contacted college for possible erollment, and they accepted my for part-time GCSE Maths. This took a full college year to complete and at the end i got a B. I was over the moon especially when i got an E first time round. This September i erolled for Maths, Physics and Geography at A-level, i got accepted, i dodnt get off to a good start, Physics was discontinued because too few students erolled, so i took IT instead. As the weeks where going by i couldnt get to grips with A-level Maths at all, this was reflected in my assessment, i only achieved a D/E prediction, where as in IT and Geography i was predicted an B. I sort of had a gut feeling about Maths though, i knew i was never that good at it even achiving a B, at 19 mind. This was late October, mum and dad was mithering me to get a job(thats why i posted about baggage handler at MAN), i was getting really low, so I helped my dad out in the shop making double-glazed units when something clicked about making money from leading. I went home and made a mockup logo for !!!!!!!!!!!!!!( the logo in gold lead, blue film etc), they turned me down. I then made a Bolton Wanderers mockup(blue and red logo, gold or silver film etc) and went for a meeting, i got a phone call a few days later, they want to launch at Easter 2006, with a firm order of 300(making a profit of £6,300), which would only take me a week to do, not bad for a first order from one football club. As of today, im making £4,000+ per week, with one football club, and we havent even launch yet. Im currently setting up a as limited company all at the age of 19, i wrote out a business plan yesterday with an industry anaylist and he told me that im set to make at least £350,000 just off the premiership football clubs, that isnt even 3% of the business plan, ive still got to do, all championchip clubs, scottish clubs, french clubs, italian clubs, spanish clubs, German clubs, deutch clubs. Thats just in euro and just football, that isnt concidering Rugby, Cricket, Football(USA), Hockey, Baseball, Basketball, Wrestling, oh and their film suck as star wars, plus custom designs for business's. This is just one product our second product is set to make twice as much, and sell twice as much. Im set to make at least 10 million around the world, thats in 7-10 years.
Its a very testing time for me at the moment, running a business at the age of 19 is 10x harder than any A-level, thats for sure, but i aint complaining, because you know what, the first time in ages im happy, and you cant buy happyness.
Looking back now, i wanted to become a pilot so much, i got ill, thinking i might fail, and now, im not losing sleep thinking i wont be a commercial pilot, because you know what, so what if i dont, ive got enough money to get my PPL, and even buy a cessna, and if later in life i do decide to complete my dream i will do, but im out to make a successfull business and build my hours using my own light aircraft, if i feel like it i might book a sim for a hour here and there, to keep that dream alive who knows.
Sorry if ive rabbited on, but i just wanted to let you guys know what mt situation is, best go, have to reply to a local paper, they want an interview
Talk soon guys
Thanks
Scott Waterworth