Assuming it isn't a wind up:
Given what I know now about flying as a paid career, I wouldn't be recommending it to my kids, let alone anyone else.
Personally, if my current profession ie your IT gig paid ok, I'd be inclined to stay with that, and use my spare cash to fund my flying training, so that I then could simply fly for pleasure.
Then I'd fly where, when, what, with who I wanted, and how I wanted to fly, so that I enjoyed it.
I'd have thought you'd have been a shoe-in for a perm HKID with all the stars having a name like Lau. Or maybe this really is a wind up....