I am want to become an airline pilot (Read me if you're 15 years old)

[Poose]

I would agree with Artie entirely... When you spend forty hours a week, doing something fundamentally dull, staring at a PC you can tend to look at the world a bit differently.

Now, if you factor in the 'McDonaldisation' and corporate 'BS' of most businesses in the Western world...
Well, this negates the chance of life changing/quality of life improving pay rises in the corporate world. If you went into engineering with a degree and didn't make an active effort to change things, you would still be sat at the same desk you started at - albeit with with 30 years of inflationary pay rises, if you're lucky... by the end of your 'career'.
This is the path of a great number in my profession...
Welcome to the 'rat race'.

I'd fly a garage door with a desk fan attached, if it paid a reasonable wage.