I sold my bookshop to pay for my CPL, which I'm about halfway through.
I'm still not sure what compelled me to sell a business that made regular, steady money, doing a job I enjoyed and was good at. I now spend my days sticking tabs in the AIP, learning to land tail wheels and getting to know loading system Echo better than any of my family members.
I'm thirty eight. I have family commitments. I'm an "Arty" type, poor at Maths, with only a basic command of Physics. The prospects out there for me are fairly narrow.
However, like a lot of pilots on this board, I'm prepared to work hard, go where the opportunities are (where ever possible) and get into debt.
Hang in there Homesick Angel...we all get there in the end, many of us without having to resort to bodily prostitution
GWAS