Well I couldn't make that jump. I got my PPL when I was 30 - 1989. Man I thought it was the coolest thing and was going to jump in with both feet.
Then while at RBG one day after having a whopping 80 hours in my log book, I was talking to an Amflight pilot flying a Beech 99. I said wow you must do pretty well flying Single Pilot PIC turbine. Not! I couldn't make the jump with one in the oven and just signed papers on a new house, and making double if not triple what she made.
So now at 49, having owned 3 different airplanes, instrument rated, will go and do the commercial rating in April, then CFI next year if I can afford it. Then 2010 I can retire and pursue the dream. For me that's flying something that pays with no money out of my pocket. So two years from now, at 51, We'll see how it turns out.
Good luck whichever way you go.
C ya, Bub