Pilot, Lawyer, Doctor or any other chance for success presents no easy path.
They all have their trials and dues paying, most people never get there because they never really want it enough. Fortune favors the prepared and sometimes it throws a monkey wrench into the works.

If you find an easy way please share it with us. I have a lot of friends working 60-80 hours a week, I am almost(almost) ashamed to tell them how little I actually work.