I have a friend whose son struggled through school but was always a hard worker. He interned as a plumber’s helper and began moonlighting in the evenings. By the time he was thirty he had a 20k foot shop, six trucks, numerous employees and the big house in town. He recently got his PPL and bought his own plane, a half million dollar Malibu. He makes far more than I and most pilots I fly with, but he’s a work-a-holic working insane amounts of hours doing what he loves.