Typhoon1244
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People still complaining about having to go to college to get an airline job? You mean this horse isn't dead yet?
Everything else aside, don't forget that medical certification can be a very fragile thing. You can be coasting along just fine and then, bam, something horrible happens and your medical goes out the window. No more flying. Having a college degree in something non-flying related makes for a great parachute if for some reason you can't fly later.
Life isn't fair. All of us would love to have gotten into the cockpit without doing any hard work, but we knuckled down and got our degrees and got the jobs because that's what we wanted. That's life. Hey, if you couldn't become an airline pilot without training in hula dancing, we'd all have been out there in grass skirts shaking our as_es.
Everything else aside, don't forget that medical certification can be a very fragile thing. You can be coasting along just fine and then, bam, something horrible happens and your medical goes out the window. No more flying. Having a college degree in something non-flying related makes for a great parachute if for some reason you can't fly later.
Life isn't fair. All of us would love to have gotten into the cockpit without doing any hard work, but we knuckled down and got our degrees and got the jobs because that's what we wanted. That's life. Hey, if you couldn't become an airline pilot without training in hula dancing, we'd all have been out there in grass skirts shaking our as_es.