Gliding and motorgliders, best of both worlds. Forty quid an hour, way more social than spamcan flying clubs and the chance to fly many interesting and varied types at low cost, plus achievement awards and if you're so minded, competitions.
Always wanted to fly professionally myself, however farcically high training costs and an unrealistically unreliable jobs market driven by lo-cost Hire 'n' Fire airlines made me see common sense. Fighting over thousands of other folks for the chance to fly some clapped-out 737 on £20K a year, 6-day-week rosters whilst £150K in debt, then get sacked after 6 months? Nae thanks, others are welcome to it.
ATC or engineering a much better career! Still get time and money to fly on your terms for fun.