Milton1995 (and bro) and others,
OK, first off ask yourself why you want to be a pilot.
The lifestyle ? - read the flybe thread or Easy threads in T&E and also the EASA FTL revision thread in R&N. The lifestyle you may imagine, wafting through a terminal, all buff in white shirt sleeves with stripes on your shoulders and ray ban aviators on your face, with a suntan gained from a layover with a raft of sexy flight attendants in some exotic far off land is an illusion. You're more likely to be pitching up at 5am pale and exhausted, in a beat up Fiat that you can barely afford the petrol for, to fly to the exotic location of Malaga or Prague with a plane load of chavs out for a p*ss up.
The chicks ? Partners these days don't wont to know a perpetually skint pilot who's perpetually anxious about his job 12 months down the line/medical/LPC, who will likely have to drop everything and relocate to some BFE part of the world at short notice to stay in work.
The job security? its gone. you're more likely to be a contractor with zero security who's services will get pulled out of peak times and as your experience increases along with your expected salary demands you'll be more expensive than a hog tied integrated/MPL candidate who'll have to fly for t0ss all because he cant take his licence elsewhere and there's a shed-load of guys behind him in the same position.
The money? see above points. go read the threads in T&E.
The travel ? holed up in an airport hotel for 21 hours, so exhausted that the closest you come to foreign interaction is CNN on the TV in your room before you crash out. a taxi into town is probably going to cost you your petrol money for that breaker Fiat, and besides, you've got four hours of time to play with or you'll be eating into your legal rest and you don't really want to eat out as you don't want to end up with the squits as you have got sectors to fly after your rest.
In respect of catching the flying bug, there is a world of difference between putzing about in a 172 out of your local airfield and flying for a living. Any wannabe needs to be realistic and treat the decision with the hard facts, not boundless optimism.
optimism has no place in aviation both at the business level or the operational level.
You will find more useful information by
lurking in the T&E threads rather than trading b/s in the wannabes forums.
You really want to have a secure job in aviation ? Get a degree in
Law or
Accounting and then specialise; then you can write your own ticket.