Degree - "NOT REQUIRED"

[FN FAL]

........not sure what those big words mean.......after I graduated high school I chose to enlist in the Marine Corps and forego college, therefore rendering my brain incapable of further development!

Use those GI benefits and get cracking...day light is a burning.

I chose to enlist in the Navy and forego the 12th grade, I haven't looked back since.

Andrew Dice Clay does this bit where he's talking to one of his dates and she says she's a nurse, but she want's to be a doctor. Dice man then asks her if she went to school for it, and she says no. Then Dice man says, "Then you're always going to be a nurse, dunce!"

 

[Betrouwbaar]

I think about 4% of pilots here at KLM have a degree...neither my husband or I have one, and it hasnt hurt us very much.

 

[Muddauber]

Here at Southwest a degree is not officially required, but it's like an unwritten requirement. I sincerely believe it's used as a discriminator during the hiring process. If any of the guys I'm flying with don't have a degree they're keeping it quite. Most of the ex-military pilots have a Masters.

Muddy

 

[sf3boy]

Since most of the major pilots are ex mil then maybe the requirement has always been to have a masters, but don't tell the civies. All a college degree or a masters proves is that you can round up some cash, either by earning it or scamming the taxpayers and that you can sit through four (six for the mil guys) years of classes, jump through enough hoops, show that you can follow orders, be conforamtive......It has nothing to do with airmanship and judgement.

 

[3Duke3]

????

All a college degree or a masters proves is that you can round up some cash, either by earning it or scamming the taxpayers and that you can sit through four (six for the mil guys) years of classes, jump through enough hoops, show that you can follow orders, be conforamtive

Sounds to me like you have some narrow minded views about people with degrees. First, I don't believe that having a degree has anything to do with being a good pilot. But, it is something that can open some doors for people that have them (like it or not thats how it is). Second, if all it took for me to get my masters was scamming from the taxpayers and sitting on my a$$, then why don't you stop bitching and just stop by your local college and pick a degree up on your way home. I'm not saying that college is "soooooo" hard, but you try to make it sound "sooooo" easy. This bagging on people with or without degrees is getting pretty old.

P.S.-- If you would like to send me some of your tax money I could use it to help pay off my Masters loan...my GI Bill covered the BA, but I could sure use some $ now, thanks. (Otherwise I think I will have to start scamming )

 

[rumorhasit]

hey I just found out today that the ceo of jet blue did not complete a degree...If they call you tomorrow would you fly for them because the ceo does not have a degree? get off your high horse and eat me!!!

 

[GEXDriver]

Our flight department requires a four year degree for pilots and we always have a thick stack of resume's for qualfied pilots on hand.