Sorry man, what I ment was, licensed ATC and AMEs get well payed to support all the flying you want.
I mean if you like flying as in "being the pilot and manipulating controls in order to actively fly an airplane" don't think you'll enjoy much working for airlines... That's my humble opinion, all the airline CPLs and ATPLs here are more than welcome to prove me wrong...
At the end you'll end up spending hard earned money flying gliders or aerobatics over the weekend to get that flying fix. Somehow spending SH!+ loads of money in order to "get where you wanna be", killing yourself to repay it, just to end up spending more money on something else, doesn't seem logical. (Hope that answers your "What happened a while ago" question)
I just think, after a few bad financial decisions of my own, you should earn some money first before you spend it all