GVFlyer
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sluminginpit said:For starters a degree won't garauntee you a job. There are plenty of law schoold grads working in Starbucks waiting for a break.
True, a degree, particularly an irrelevant one, will not guarantee you a job, but it will significantly improve your chances.
sluminginpit said:G200, relax! You act all high and mighty beacause you think you have such a great life flying, and making money! Would you give it all up if your wife was dying, you bet you would!
I did not read Gulfstream 200's comments to portray an "all high and mighty" attitude. I read it to say if you lose your current job and you have to compete with college grads for a new position, you will lose out.
Also, I don't believe there are any studies showing that an aviation career in any manner increases spousal mortality.
sluminginpit said:I always thought I wanted to make tons of money, but the more I make the more I worry about it. I don't have anymore money than before, just more stuff (crap).
That's an issue of discipline and character. You don't have to become materialistic if your income increases - that's a choice you make.
I put 35% of my net income into financial instruments each month and limit my possessions to things which in some way improve my personal or familial quality of life.
sluminginpit said:I don't have a degree, only spent 1 year in collage and make $90K a year. I have great wife, great dog, both parents still alive and married, roof over my head, healty, can see, can hear, can afford food, heat, water and clothes. All without a degree. If I loose my job, I won't loose any of this, I will adapt and survive.
You make it sound as if having a degree somehow makes it more difficult to have the basics and to enjoy a meaningful life. Education and QOL are not mutually exclusive. I have two degrees and share the same things you do except that my income is a multiple of yours, the later primarily because I had the right qualifications when the right opportunity presented itself.
GV