I don t want to put a spanner in the works but I went to university hated the life there. The immature attitude and the chance of still not getting a job when you re finished. People are different and if we all did the same thing eg uni, job we didn t want to be in then we would be bored. I have always wanted to be a pilot. I first told everyone when I was 5 years old and was laughed at as I was a girl. Now I think its a choice, and not a condition to go to uni. I learnt nothing in life experience except to be scared of other human beings.
I went to train at a flying school and I learnt more there than I did anywhere. I grew up. You can t act like a child whilst flying because if you do you won t get very far. Life experience isn t about age its about living. You can be 20 and lived away from home for years, or 35 and still living with mum and dad. But living with family doesn t mean you haven t lived. Nature has a funny way of giving life experience from the most unexpected places. I think some people should realise that we re different and take different roads to get to the same goals. As one post stated you go to uni to study for a specified subject so why go and train to be a lawyer,doctor,archaeologist or teacher if you want to fly. People go back to uni at 50 so you can always start again. It s good to have another string to your bow but if that string is going to be useless and you don t enjoy it why use the money and time that you have. You take up a place for someone else at uni who could need it. I would be upset if someone trained to be a pilot and had no intention of flying! We all want the same thing so why are we all fighting?