Good day everyone,

I'm stuck in a situation that I can't wrap my brain around. It is a career and long term decision, and I am just looking for some input.

Two years ago I began training to be a private pilot and long term my goal was to be a airline pilot. Long story short, I failed the written test, but passed it the second time, I also failed the flight test and this is when I didn’t go back. I was treated very poorly by my school and was taken advantage on the money aspect of it. I would show up for a lesson and my instructor would not be there and this happened multiple times. When I did my air flight test, my instructor kept praising me that I was doing good with what I had been learning and I was ready for it. My gut kept telling me no I wasn’t, but I decided to give it a shot anyways.

The examiner told me I wasn’t ready and had been poorly instructed. I don’t want to put all the blame on the school, but I did study all the time and something I enjoyed reading about, I just didn’t grasp some stuff right away, or couldn’t remember all of what I needed to know. I look back on it now and wish I could do a bunch of stuff differently maybe study a section more or visual my self doing it. Other option would be to change flight schools and be some where happy.

What I am trying to figure out is, from reading aviation message boards there is a lot of negativity on the industry, that the pay is poor , that the divorce rate is high, etc. The thing is I can’t see my self at this point doing anything else but flying a airplane for the rest of my life. I also can’t figure out why I quit it so easily if I had a passion for it? Since I quit there always seams to be reminders that it’s my calling (Planes in the sky always above where I live, Books when I walk past them in the library always seam to pop out, commercials) I know everyone says this but I don't see my self doing anything else but flying a airplane for a living.

My second question is, I have looked in to doing a electrician course but I don’t know if I’m just looking at as a good money making job, home for dinner, etc. How does one know that this trade or that trade is for him?
Or a career in business is right for them?

Sorry a bit long, I appreciate any input.