I dropped out of flight school because of a mixture of not liking the money hungry academy I was going to and contemplating my future in the aviation field . I literally have been coming on here since I was a kid and I'm now 19. People on here are really negative about a career in aviation, I seriously tried to drop aviation because of people on here; being 12 at the time I was crushed. Like everyone else here flying is one of those things you can't shake and we all know it, it's the reason we come on this site. Well I started flying last year loved it even when I got sick and annoyed during training I still looked forward to saying airspeed alive and taking off. Realism hit me I was already getting into loans etc and the industry keeps getting narrower etc. I am now contemplateing things I really can't think of anyhting else I would do as a career other than flying because I like nice expensive things. I did plenty of internships over the years in serious fields, even though I was good at those things that would pay me 6 figures I would hate coming to work everyday for the rest of my life. Like the pharmacists I worked with they seem to dread their jobs even though their field starts you out with a 6 fig salary. If you're a free spirit and not materialistic go for it if not then find another profession. (It's always easy for people to say have a back up profession if you like aviation so much, but who in the world can go to school for a 6 fig profession and pilot training you have to be focused as hell and have wealthy parents med school is not cheap...)