Where is there true success and happiness without risk?
Just the thought of the likely possibility of looking back at my life and thinking "what if I tried" makes my stomach turn a little!
I will try; if I succeed (happy with my job and life) then great. If I don't succeed or I end up being miserable as a pilot then very well, it was an expensive lesson. But I tried.
A lot of people, who originally were crazy about flying, decide to take the safe route and avoid aviation as a whole. I cannot bare the thought of spending the rest of my life working in an office 9-5, taking the same train everyday with the same miserable commuters, looking out of our one office window at the jet contrails and thinking "what if".