Hello, thank you for taking the time to read this. I am 28 years old, and have been a journeyman pipeline/natural gas facility welder/small business owner for the past 8 years. I do not have any college education. My wife and I had our first son as teenagers and I've always just done what I had to do to put food on the table. Flight training was (what I thought) unrealistically expensive and out of reach. When talking to my oldest son last week about what he wanted to be when he grew up, he said a welder. Just like his daddy. He then asked what I wanted to be when I was his age....now I realize how incredibly hypocritical it is of me to tell my boys to follow their dreams when I haven't done it myself. So the time has come where I'd like to pursue my dream. Where there's a will there's a way but obviously you all know the industry better than I. I have absolutely 0 flight training and no college education. Is becoming an airline pilot a realistic dream to pursue? Thank you in advance to any response.