What exactly is so wrong with paying for an education, recieving the education, doing the internship/apprenticeship/line training, then starting in the career.
Thats the way it's been forever with things from medicine to hairdressing to bricklaying to becoming a lawyer.
Why should we have to work our way up slowly to finally getting paid 10 years after training. At the end of the day, it's just a job.
And to whoever asked : Towards my PPL? About 5 or 6? Tops?
Did have a few hundred gliding though.