I love all these quotes...Go and be a doctor! Look, if you want to be a pilot, you want to be a pilot! Nothing else compares!!
If someone had said to me in the 1990's when I trained "Listen, the industry is going to change, become a doctor instead" I would have said "but I will not get to fly that willo 3B (as it was then) and then fly through the autopilot down to minimums" as I wanted to do. All those hours listening to the airband radio, wishing I was up there instead of being down here in the back garden of my parents house...
I have no interest in becoming a doc, lawyer, accountant. Pilot or nothing. For me, anyway. And for me, I am not interested in flying light a/c. I did that to get to flying jets, to be doing what I dreamed of. That includes military hardware too. Never been interested in shooting at people and flying through valleys at 100 feet. I'd probably throw up!
Everyone is different, I guess some people get into flying because it is percieved as a job comparable to doc,law,accountant etc.
Some, like me get into it because it is what they dreamed of.
Paolo