Strafe-<Hands up how many commercial pilots actually did this? If they were the only ones who 'gave it another thought' the skies would be empty.>.......err.....I wasn't alone actually! You're a PPL. That 'drive' when I was a teen took me through some very bad periods in flying and the enthusiasm is lasting me out as it gets increasingly tiring as I near the finishing tape. Without that, I know I wouldn't have stuck with it.
The effort involved with the job exceeds any office job. Too many people look on it as just another job option rather than requiring dexterity and aptitude and mental picturing. Some of the new products of sponsored pilot training had it all too easy with bizarre (to me) attitudes. But take it from someone in the industry who's been doing it for 33 years- unless you love aeroplanes, you ain't gonna be able to get up at 0330 time and again or work all night and arrive home feeling knackered, or work long hours (171/2 delayed) for 40 odd years- and that after getting a nice little £50k debt under your belt, completely unstable home life for years with varying periods of unemployment. <<Something that has always interested me is being a pilot, but I'd be the first to admit that I know very little about what the this job involves (something to do with those big things with wings, right? )>> just won't do it! Save yourself a lot of trouble!