Using your Aviation Degree to get out

[brokeflyer]

you got a degree in aviation?....yup....your focked.....

 

[SDF2BUF2MCO]

Firefighter - $60k/yr starting salary in my town, working 8 days a month, and you get to play with some very cool toys.

I would also suggest law enforcement or government work. Law enforcement will take about any degree. Flight Ops or training. Granted those jobs aren't as plentiful. There is also aviation manufacturing and all the subsequent positions that it takes to run a biz. Retail will take about any degree but the pay and hours are brutal. Go mil and get other types of experience. Wish I had the guts and the capital I'd own a business.

 

[MED]

you got a degree in aviation?....yup....your focked.....

The most informative post so far

 

[MALSR]

Use your aviation degree to get your MBA or some other masters program that you have some interest in. Even if you originally got a 4-year business degree instead of aviation what would you do with it? Get a entry level marketing job or junior sales associate job for 28k? Fact of the matter is you would want that masters degree anyway for the $50k plus jobs.

 

[brokeflyer]

The most informative post so far

thanks.....

 

[satpak77]

get your MBA or get become a Certified Financial Planner (need any 4-year).

a straigth up aviation degress is WORTHless

 

[DrunkIrishman]

I don't have a graduate degree yet. Did you take the job?

CE

No, I stuck it out with the flying thing and got lucky with my current employer. It certainly was tempting though.

 

[pilotyip]

How long have you been in flying? I found breaking into the non-flying world as someone who had been a pilot was nearly impossible. I think companies figure you will leave them as soon as a good flying job comes up. With BS in Education and Masters in Management I applied for a number of training opening, lower level management and never received one interview. I has also run my own company for five years where I had 20 employees and a 3.5M operation, but I could not crack that non-flying world. I did take a job as a High School Chemistry teacher until I got the Dir of Training job at USA Jet. I was 53 years old at the time and the economy was strong.