34 yo with no previous pilot experience isn't an ideal age to start looking for a pilot job, but it's also far from being too late. What's your aiming point? if you don't have one how can you steer towards it?
A lot of your competitors will have started out with a rather glamourous idea of wanting to be a paid pilot and handing over hard cash to achieve the vision, but reallity has to feature at some point (unless some wealthy sponsor is paying) and the vision has to be focussed to how and where you're going to start receiving money back on your investment.
My advice to you to steal a march on your competitors is to focus now, push on from the dreamy world of training and handing over money. Start actually phoning employers, get a feel for the real market and what they want from you, are you networking contacts at local airfields or are you aiming at the big guys?
If you're really 'driven' to achieve this goal then be positive and go for it, plenty will fall out along the way and all of them will have reached this point. It's those with a plan that make it beyond.