When you look at the most successful people in this world
The thing is this is not about success.
This is a passion, an idea, maybe the willing to become an aeronautical Nietzsche aboveman (reach an aim, not arrogance).
Watching a propeller should give you the feeling of voyage, watching an airplane would make you want to discover new places.
It's not about success. This activity (not really a career) has been completely spoiled with the stupid flight school pictures/ads. It misleads everybody. If for you a pilot that's rayban, gold epaulets, big hat, big jet, big ego, it's possible you won't make it, or won't enjoy it.
If you dream of Cessna Caravan, of indonesian jungle, oil exploration in Mongolia, then maybe you really want to be a pilot.
We entered in the big jet/big ego and cadet area. Discovering, adventure, passion is still possible, but the image of pilot has changed, and the wannabe aswell.
This incredible activity became a stupid career for the ones who come for the bad reasons, and for the ones who are not passionate enough to go through apprenticeship around the world in real airplanes.