Sure, it's called Harvey. Like the oilfields, only a small percentage of the population will be willing to take a chance and move to Houston to find a reconstruction job or start a small business.

The point of my post was to be inspirational. (Think glass is half full). If you want something bad enough, you will find ways to accomplish it and not give up. If you keep telling yourself that the economic climate is not right, you are too old, you are not smart enough, than the economic climate is never going to be right, you are always going to be too old, you will never be smart enough, etc.

Here is some tough love, but stop looking for some magical solution to your problems and get off your ass and do something about it. I graduated college with a finance degree which turned out to be pretty worthless in 2008. It took me a couple years to realize that I was not entitled to a good job just because I went to college. You always need to have a good back up plan.

Have you ever heard of a term called focal length? Your focal length is how far into the future you can see the roadmap of your life. For example, someone who enters a pre-med curriculum their freshman year in college has a focal length of at least 12 years. Is your focal length long enough to get you to your desired end state as a pilot?

If you are looking for direction, you could always join the military.