14 yr olds are totally forgiven for knowing nothing and being 180 degrees wrong.
The audience here is wide. Great that you've got a fall back career. Many haven't and quite proportion of those have nothing but massive debt and their parents loans to fall back on.
Employers don't find you attractive as a failed pilot. It suggests you get yourselves into things you don't understand, that you will have money worries and that you are a dreamer. Sorry, but that's what many 40yr old Bosses will think about you if you are in your 20's and have a CPL/IR but are applying for some menial £20k job on the basis of some easy foundation qualification.
And they'll think to themselves that at the first chance of a flying job you'll ditch this exciting opportunity in the Paper & Packaging industry to go fly aircraft. Which would be true. Better to hire the guy you hasn't blown £70k on a license he's desperate to use elsewhere.
The job interviewer is more likely to be put off by your CPL IR than impressed. Trust me as I've sat on BOTH sides of that desk.
There is only ONE thing that is true and that you need to know. Never ever miss-time your entry to the career of pilot. To do so is disaster. Classic miss-timing would be to complete CPL IR Frzn ATPL MCC anytime from Feb 2008 to Dec 2010.
At the earliest.
This time won't be exactly like the last HPC and recession. History doesn't repeat itself - but it does rhyme.
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