With your age & background, piloting for a living certainly seems doable. There are no guarantees starting out, $$$ will be required too. Individual initiative factors in heavily, not everyone is equal with motivation levels.
I had a 2.5 year girlfriend back in the day. She gave me an ultimatum about my moving to start piloting. I had forces pulling at me where not doing it wasn’t a consideration. She’s in between marriages at the moment, just isn’t the same though.
Don’t know how one starts in Europe, plenty of flight schools in the USA to check out.