Should I blow another $15,00 for BS degree?

[jmreii]

Big purple want's a four year degree followed closely by networking!

 

[aewanabe]

Marcus, you have great perspective on the situation. I was hired at JB without the degree but consider myself extremely fortunate. I was also enrolled in school and am close to finishing so I was able to demonstrate my committment to getting it done. Best of luck. And MCO base is a very realistic option when we start hiring again, BTW.

 

[Lear70]

CRJ, watch the sexual references...

 

[epic!]

agreed. dont get an aviation degree. i somewhat regret getting mine and i graduated fairly recently

 

[Brasilia Flyer]

For fifteen bucks I'd say do it.

 

[QOL_is_great:)]

if you don't want to start your own business......

Look into Utah Valley University to finish the degree quickly. It's a REAL school and you're drgree will be in aviation, but that's why it's quick. They will take your two-year degree, FAA certificates and other life experiences that you can apply. Then focus on a master's of something you'd like to do part-time and earn some coin.
Either way, start NOW by taking at least once class a term. It'll be over before you know it and you taking classes will look good during your interview.
Good luck!!!

 

[QOL_is_great:)]

A lot of the JB guys in the start up stage did not have degrees. Guess JB is moving away from their roots

Is? Has!

 

[pilotyip]

what speeling police?

Is? Has!

it should read HAS moving? instead of is moving?

 

[pilotyip]

what speeling police?

Is? Has!

it should read HAS moving? instead of is moving? I am olny a clolgee gardaute, wiht a Msater's so how wulod I konw?

 

[QOL_is_great:)]

it should read HAS moving? instead of is moving? I am olny a clolgee gardaute, wiht a Msater's so how wulod I konw?

Point is JB has moved away from their foundation of hiring and the people they wanted to be the face of the company.
JB has become more like an airline (company) and less like a large, extended family.
You know exactly what I am pointing out Pilotyip.

 

[skycaptain11]

Get the degree

 

[CX880]

Look into Utah Valley University to finish the degree quickly. It's a REAL school and you're drgree will be in aviation, but that's why it's quick. !

Dont get a degree in Aviation. It's worthless. Get something in finance or biology, those are gateway degrees to anything. I mean a degree shouldn't be about checking a box, you should actually learn something.

 

[skygod75]

maxcackel, what are your other ways of making money outside of aviation? I've been trying to find something to do on the side that I can grow big enough so that I can quit working for the man and get out of this gig someday. I would rather spend the time and money getting my own business up and running than just taking more worthless college classes.

Seems obvious to me: Move to a state that has legalized medical marijuana and become a grower/supplier. Get the permits you need and become a legal drug dealer.

There's your long term growth potential.

 

[pilotyip]

Remember why you are getting the degree

Dont get a degree in Aviation. It's worthless. Get something in finance or biology, those are gateway degrees to anything. I mean a degree shouldn't be about checking a box, you should actually learn something.

You are getting the degree to check a box on an application, it is not something you plan to do for a living. To get a degree on the side while you are flying, nothing wrong with that. However, The fallback value of a degree is greatly over rated. I have a BS and a Master's in Management, but at age 53, I was making $250/wk loading cargo. After Zantop pretended to go out of went out of business in 1997, I had been a temporary High School Chemistry Teacher up until two weeks before the cargo job came along. However, they do not teach school in the summer so I had to take the cargo job. The value of an unused degree is highly over rated. 53 year old unemployed airline pilots are not eagerly greeted in any industry that I know of, even of having a couple degrees. Of course, I did not apply for many of the "College degree preferred jobs" such as apt manager, telephone direct sales, and plumbing floor manager at Home Depot, etc. If you get a college degree you have to use, the knowledge gained in college to develop a career or the degree is useless. After getting a degree, flying an airplane is not a knowledge expanding experience; it is skill development experience.

 

[CX880]

You are getting the degree to check a box on an application, it is not something you plan to do for a living. To get a degree on the side while you are flying, nothing wrong with that. However, The fallback value of a degree is greatly over rated. I have a BS and a Master's in Management, but at age 53, I was making $250/wk loading cargo. After Zantop pretended to go out of went out of business in 1997, I had been a temporary High School Chemistry Teacher up until two weeks before the cargo job came along. However, they do not teach school in the summer so I had to take the cargo job. The value of an unused degree is highly over rated. 53 year old unemployed airline pilots are not eagerly greeted in any industry that I know of, even of having a couple degrees. Of course, I did not apply for many of the "College degree preferred jobs" such as apt manager, telephone direct sales, and plumbing floor manager at Home Depot, etc. If you get a college degree you have to use, the knowledge gained in college to develop a career or the degree is useless. After getting a degree, flying an airplane is not a knowledge expanding experience; it is skill development experience.

I completely disagree, if you get a degree that is worth something like Biology or Finance or basically anything to do with science, it will always be useful.