Become a Doctor...You can live anywhere you want and always have a well paying job..In many specialties, you can easily earn $300,000 per year..Even as a regular Hospitalist you can earn $200,000 per year...If you end up in top paying specialties- cardiology, radiology, oncology, orthopedics, ophthalmology-retina,etc..you will earn well above $500,000 per year...In flying you will not see $200,000 until you are mid career with a legacy airline..That could be in your late 40s assuming you get hired in early thirties..In medicine you will start earning those numbers as soon as you complete your residency/ fellowship which will put you in your early thirties...If you want to waste your life away then by all means become a pilot..Flying is a long bumpy road to get on with a Major Airline..