Aviation is not just a job, it's a status. For this reason, after WWII it has become something available only to "sons/friends of somebody". Luck and miracles might not actually exist in aviation, everything is preset. But if one doesn't know anybody and has to do it all by himself, with his own money, the good side of it is that he spends a lot but all in one shot... other jobs make you spend the same money in a 10-30 years range.
So keep doing it.