Flying almost meets the clinical definition of addiction:
- willing to obtain it at all costs, affects life and family, etc.
Other than that it defies all logic given return on investment.
Trying to thread the needle to get that one dream job. The analogy is professional sports - playing junior A or minor league ball at $12,000 a year for a chance at the majors.

When passion flows logic goes out the window. I had a friend that went to chef school. $50,000 in tuition for a job that requires 6 days a week, 12 hours a day, all to start at 35K and maybe top out at 70.

On another note-We push college as a society. In reality a lot of people would be better off in trade school. There's a lot of debt ridden people with a Masters working at Starbucks while their high school classmates make $100K a year as a welder or electrician.