So Kezza you think you may be too old to harbour dreams of being a professional stick and rudder twiddler? - I have another 4 years on you and have just attained my PPL after a year of flying weekends only. By my reckoning I still need another 150 hours, a class 1 medical, a CPL, an instructor rating, an instructing job on little or no pay for about 2 years, lots more hours, an instrument rating, a multi-engine rating and the luck of the devil if I am ever to realise my ambition of flying anything with 2 wings for a living. By the time I have done all that I will be at least in my early forties and probably of no interest to most airlines. Do you think I am going to let a few minor details like these get in the way of achieving my wholly ridiculous and outlandish ambitions? ........NEVER!
A wise or foolish person once said, "Happy are they who dream dreams and are prepared to pay the price to make them come true"
GO FOR IT.