As an aside if I recall correctly you 'only' needed 5 O levels back in the day to be able to apply for Pilot.
Am I correct?
Would 5 GCSE's get me in now if so?
Back on topic, sort of, getting a degree and then going to work as a milkman hardly stamps you as someone dying to fly fast jets does it?
And I fully expect flak for that sentence.
One of the best pilots I met was a "Sheet Metal Worker" before he joined up.