I loaned the money from a bank to do it. Parents had to sign a "if sh*t hits the fan, we'll take your house" contract...
(Tell you what, you are too afraid to fail at that point you work bloody hard!)
Anyway now flying big jets and finding that although I make a nice salary, I might have jumped the gun when I started training. Interest is a killer! If I could I would do it all over again, but maybe take a different route, or gather money before starting.
Guess that was just my young naive age that was unstopable when the first opportunity was there.
As you can find on this forum there are many ways to get flying. Just get informed.