Work towards getting your licence, you will never be out of a job.
As has been quoted above, get into sheet metal, compound curve work and the English wheel, you will never go hungry.
Learn big engines, Merlin, Griffon, Pratt & Whitney and Wright, no school teaching available certainly in UK.

Anybody with all the above you have a job here, tomorrow!
Subject to the smallprint.

Enlighten me, I might be in that situation shortly, much prefer a job here rather than in Emirates!

Oh, actually I did the BCAR licence at Shoreham, and we learnt on Leonides, Gypsy Queens, and three Merlins, one of which we sectioned, and one which we rebuilt and now stands in the Foyer of the college, so there is college teaching available on big piston engines.

Rgds

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