In regard of building hours by taking parachutists up - well from what ive heard, its hard enough getting into that as it is as there's only so many parachute schools and aircraft to fly.
I inquired once and they wanted a min of 300 hours and rating on a Cessna caravan so surely gaining that is just as expensive as doing loads of hours in a share aircraft at £75 an hour or whatever...
I'd like to instruct one day and to be fair, i would find being an airline pilot boring. Id like to be a more hands on sort of pilot and gain some job satisfaction out of instructing for the rest of my days...
Dont get me wrong, throwing a big piece of metal round the sky would be awsome, but doing it everyday i think i would be bored.
Each of us have different ambitions and theres always both good and bad for a certain argument. People become complacent.