I made my profile some time ago but ive just been silently browsing so I decide its about time to say hello and introduce myself.
I am at 28 year old guy from the UK and I have always wanted to fly. In my spare time I am a paraglider pilot and I only wish I had started doing it sooner, its the best thing I ever did. I also love computers & games.
When I was younger I wanted to join the RAF as a pilot but in the end I decided to go do a bit of work and go down the computer games route and I now have a degree in computer games software development. But, while I was doing this degree I realised that I just cant sit in front of a computer all my life. I just cant do it! I am always looking outside and up at the sky and wishing I was out there
As it stands now I still dont fully know what I want to do. Even in a job as a pilot I dont know if I want to be a airline pilot or go down the rotary route. My reasons for this is that airline pilots seems like a boring job to me in some ways. Helicopter pilot on the other hand seems like my kind of thing, but I dont like all these reports I hear that helicoper pilots retire poor, single and homeless
I would really like to settle down and get my own place (somewhere else than in the UK!). The fact is, I actually dont care so much about money. I do up to a point, but really I just want to do a job that I enjoy, but I dont want to retire with nothing. Well ive been reading this forum for a while and I still cant decide
I even know a guy who teaches paragliding all summer and is a ski instructor in the winter which is totally awesome but he never has a penny left saved for a rainy day.