What happened to your ambitions?

I aspired to be an Indian Air Force Pilot, i studied hard till my 10th, then Narayana Junior college a chutiya institute to manufacture idiots happened for so called intermediate (11th and 12th call), they don't teach u basics, just mcqs, previous year papers, rote learning, still somehow I grabbed the concepts which are must for IAF Pilot like physics and maths. Then Btech came and got a beautiful girlfriend, started slowly focusing on those things, ahemm.... It was natural instinct, madly in love, a good student like (90+ percent) me stated getting backlogs, still i cleared them asap and then reality hit, i have focused on my gf and clearing subjects in btech so much so that I almost forgot about my afcat (aid force common admission test), this was just btech end and full family pressure to get an IT job, i thought I could pause my aspiration for 2 months crack IT job and then crack afcat. And I did crack an IT job in a good startup, and i hope I don't need to tell u how a startup is, great learning, good atmosphere, daily talks with CEO, CMOs, and real business about money. I slowly started getting interest not in the work but in money making, but it still wasn't enough to make me completely forget Afcat, so i applied for it and without preparing I wrote failed twice, and i took 1 week leave + weekend and then cracked in my 3rd attempt, after going there, seeing the strict regiment and comparing with my IT job, I chose my IT job and decided two things, I will have good money in IT job + 2 days off will give me enough time to take care of my parents.

But as u guessed, any IT job, once u start getting senior roles, your week, your months, everything is screwed and revolve around better Package. So i came to terms with it, and now I'm one among the million normal employees who keeps thinking ah, if I learn this I will get x% increment on my weekends