Completely your choice.....you have two routes of where you can go.
I will tell you what I did, I left school at 16 with 11 1/2 GCSEs all at A and A*. Started A- Levels and hated it, so.... I dropped out!! Worked in a restaurant full time as a waiter, after 6 months I was supervising and after another 6 months I was a restaurant manager, at 17. At 18 I applied for the police and at 19 I started training.
I have applied for the Etihad scheme, because I am not prepared to pay around £70,000 for training, and then risk not getting a job, and then if I do, get a crap starting salary.
Most of my mates did their A-levels, and are now finishing degrees. They are all in a lot of debt, around £20,000 each. They have little work experience and most of them are now wondering what the hell to do as a career.
So your choices are that you do the best you can at GCSE, do A-levels, then a degree, then you can apply to a flight training school and pay for the training. Remember you will not be paid during the training, so you are looking at not getting a proper full time salary for the next seven years at least, and paying for ATPL training.
Or, you can start working, getting life experience, making money etc etc And then apply when you are ready, with no debt.
It is a difficult choice, and both routes have their pros and cons. The good thing about a degree is that you have something to fall back on, and can apply to a graduate scheme if all else fails. Or, you will have 5 years of work experience to put towards getting another job if piloting doesn't work out.
Tough one, not sure if that helps at all, but there we go.
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