If you do have an Engineering or software qualification, why not try Flight Simulation as a stop gap until that flying job appears.
Get to know the cockpit of your choice in intimate detail, spend endles hours practising system failures, doing instrument approaches into exotic airports in low visibility, thunderstorms, high winds and turbulence. Fly with one engine, hell no, glide with no engines, see what happens when you switch off all the computers and do a barrel roll. Get to meet the employed pilots, training captains and chat over the various expectations of different system faults and the details of your last approach into Innsbruck.
Work ? nah... not for a wannabe pilot !
[ 01 February 2002: Message edited by: SimJock ]</p>