Chimbu,
My success is about 90% bloody minded and 9% luck,1% talent...I am where I am because it's ALL I ever wanted and I am hopeless at all other methods of making a living...I get depressed (I am being serious) if I can't fly. If I wasn't in jets I would happily be flying RFDS, Coastwatch or in a war zone in Africa...in fact to be perfectly honest one day I will go back to that because Jets are NOT the reason I learned to fly.
Excellent!! that's exactly how I feel...