Another degree question

[pilotyip]

Brand new CRJ-900's are crap airplanes?. The regionals are the ones having the trouble. The airplanes are not the issue. The real issue is pay and the insecurity of the job. At USA Jet we start at 34K, first day of ground school. We have a lot of applicants. Other operators in our sector have rasided wages and increased days off in order to attract pilots. Pressure on bottom is starting to rasie wages and improve working conditions. It will spread.

 

[Brett Hull]

Where is this job? If it's PDK, do some thinking because the position is open because the owner found out one of the pilots was going to interview somewhere else and gave him his walking papers.

 

[ualdriver]

Not to bring up an old thread, but it is from a year ago as the hiring boom started to build.

That may be true, for now. Once the FAA/ALPA/ATA/etc., figure out the new Age 65 rules and implement the new policy, that should pretty much kill any upward pressure in pay on the low end. We'll have +/- 5 years of pilot supply artifically building up, starting the downward cycle again- and it will be worse unless the economy keeps chugging along. When the older guys do start retiring, they'll be pushing for "Age 67" and cabotage should be just starting to kick in. I hope I'm wrong.

 

[Skaff]

Go to work, get the online degree. If you go the traditional route and get a degree from a school in class, you come out and your only qualified for a regional or less. If you go to work, get some experience while you are concurrently getting a degree, you finish college qualified and ready to get the job you really want. Give up the job and you give up seniority and hundreds of thousands of dollars of your career.

 

[SDF2BUF2MCO]

I concur about getting a degree not because I think a degree is necessary and brings a lot of nutritional value* but unfortunately that is the way the game is played. I have two degrees (B.S. and M.S.) and don't "use" either one of them. I only got my M.S. to prove to myself I wasn't a dumb jock (so I guess that had some nutritional value). I would try to have my cake and eat it too...accept the job and either do the on-line or part-time thing.
I get a hoot out of companies being so insistent on a degree. They claim they are seeking the "best and the brightest". Guess Enron, MCI, et. al. got the best and the brightest. It comes to down to character and wanting to do the "right thing". But alas the Emperor has no clothes.
* I think degrees that offer technical skills such as engineering, drafting, computer science, etc. do offer nutritional value. Degrees in management and (in) Human Resources should be called B.S. in How to Manipulate People (joking somewhat).