Fried,
Be a navigator in the RAF - if you can get in, that is. Competition's pretty hard.
They don't call them that any longer - they're now WSOs (Weapons Systems Officers). Same job, though.
I was one for 29 years. It was good. I got paid the same as pilots and, on a two-seat aeroplane like the Phantom, Buccaneer or Tornado, there is no question that you do the same job and share the same risks. You're totally interdependant - OK, the nav couldn't do his job withoout a pilot, but in most 2-seaters, the pilot couldn't do his job without a nav either.
Go for it. You'll hear a lot of denigration from pilots with an inferiority complex. Disregard them. Do your own thing.
But it's tough. You've got to be good.
Paul