Minute by Minute...
In 2005 or 2006, I was in the FBO at Montgomery, AL. On display in a glass bookcase were the logbooks of a local pilot who had recently retired. There were a slew of them. I can't remember his name, but I remember what he did.
He flew J-3s doing pipeline-patrol, I think 5 days a week, 8 hours a day, 4 and a half weeks per month, for multiple decades....maybe 30 years. I think that would be Part 91, and I think he retired when he was in his early 60s.
He had over 60,000 hours. Granted, it wasn't fast, it wasn't very high, it wasn't glamorous, and he probably didn't make much...but it was an amazing total.
That's almost 7 years not touching the planet.
That's one way to build time.