Many people find it easy, many find it hard. The advice given above about it being easy with staacks of family time is probably not the most prudent thing to be telling people about to set off an a course that has historically high failure rates. As an example, my course had a failure in the first 6 weeks. This individual thought that his background in a similar aviation profession would see him through but it did not.
Good luck to you all. It is probably a fairly worthwhile lesson to learn early that the whole job is based around it being a piece of piss 99% of the time and quite diffficult the other 1%. That 1% is why you should put in as much effort as you possibly can in the early stages as when you get rated, there will be noone holding your hand to remind you of the 20% that you did not learn as 80% was a pass in the college.