Roger Roger
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I don’t know if you’d qualify, the mins were like 1000 MTPIC and 3 shuttle landings.
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Roger Roger
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Engineer: posts that infographic
Also engineer: regularly spends time online explaining how various disciplines outside his own are completely wrong.
roundout
VNAV monitor
You mean you don't type out a brilliant response, then say "oh hell with this" and then just close your browser and get up from your chair?
Far out
fholbert
Mod's - Please don't edit my posts!
I still remember being at Hickam in the 2005 timeframe and seeing NW DC-10s coming in and out of there.
Some airlines got rid of their 727s just prior to 9/11, some just or a year or two after. I believe USAir was one of the first to get rid of them in that timeframe, and Delta one of the last.
Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
All for the cost of an arm and leg, and increasing far over inflation every year, representing over 1 trillion dollar in debt. And every step through those educational degree process costs more and more for the increased enlightenment. In that sense, it’s like the Church of Scientology.
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Sorry about that. I’ve seen the same thing. They all aren’t like that, but some certainly are to my embarrassment.
Richman
JC’s Resident Curmudgeon
The mechanism behind college tuition is identical to health care, and why it costs $1200 to fix a dime sized rust spot on your car at the body shop.
Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
Get the government out of the guaranteed student loan business. A person doesn't "have" to go to college. At this point, it's become a racket.
CFI A&P
Exploring the world one toilet at a time.
At least they have an airport that is subsidized by their believers.
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ppragman
FLIPY FLAPS!
if only.
Richman
JC’s Resident Curmudgeon
College tuition is like a goldfish. It will grow to the size tank you put it in.
Kind of like CC complaining about a $316 raise in SS taxes?
drunkenbeagle
Gang Member
Individually, no. But as a society, we do need millions of people to go to colleges. The only question is who should pay for it. It's about 2.5% of GDP in the US, something society can clearly afford, and in line with the rest of the western world spends. A system with no government support would mean the rich getting even richer. A system entirely funded by taxes would mean less choice for students. Or what we have right now, something in the middle.
Fewer government backed loans would mean spending more for direct grants, graduating fewer students, or importing more immigrants. Otherwise, labor shortages that hurt all of us.
Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
Per year. Yeah, it’s a legit complaint. Next year the cap will go up again. From 142,800 to (insert number). Then take the difference, and 6.2% of that is the new paycut for 2022.
And I don’t know where this half a million dollar pilot comes from. He’s a Delta overlord, they probably make that much. Me? Nowhere close to 500k.
Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
The system is broken. We should not make it “free” and transfer the burden of tuition directly to taxpayers. These colleges/universities will go insane with spending and tuition increases if that happens.
College was never meant to be what it is now.
Roger Roger
Bottom of the list
No one wants to talk about how parents are partly to blame for tuition inflation, gotta make sure that the school Braxton and Skye go to has the latest greatest student life building, an “athletic village”, and 37 different school-funded intramural sports, which in turn require a lot of 6-figure admin salaries to oversee.
drunkenbeagle
Gang Member
Great, we can get taxpayers out of the higher education finance business. But since we still need doctors, nurses, lawyers, engineers, school teachers and everything else, we will need to get that labor from somewhere. If it isn't here, we are going to import labor from the rest of the world. The consequence of that is that the kid who can't afford college here will also never get a good job either, because it will go to someone imported from Mexico or India or China.
Boris Badenov
Fortis Leader
Good points being made on the broader context. On the more narrow question of getting to a "career" job and the trials and tribulations thereof, I never felt that it was a trial, and I would have been ok jumping from 135 to 91 making a decent, middle-class salary (and of course complaining all the way, it's part of the job). And I think it was basically just dumb luck that that wasn't what happened.
I mean, sure, if I hadn't done the shoe-leather-work, I for SURE would have been flying rich people and their golf clubs from New York and California to beaches and mountains for the rest of my working years, but there wasn't any one thing that turned the key in the lock, or if there was, I have NO idea what it was. Might have been meet and greets, might have been meeting a C/A in the training department (through absolute happenstance) who put my stuff in, might have been my app popped to the top of the pile when the person in charge was getting ready to go home and feed their dog and they were just like "sure, whatever, interview this dork".
Two things you can be sure of, imho. 1: You can't control how the spice flows. You pays your money and takes your chances. The only thing you have any control of us how much effort you put in. and 2) (really kind of a corollary to (1)): You won't know how your career went until it's over.
Life is full to overflowing of crap to worry about already, don't borrow trouble trying to decipher a black box which most likely doesn't even HAVE an algorithm, just a lot of slightly-broken parts whirring around and producing largely random sparks.
I mean, sure, if I hadn't done the shoe-leather-work, I for SURE would have been flying rich people and their golf clubs from New York and California to beaches and mountains for the rest of my working years, but there wasn't any one thing that turned the key in the lock, or if there was, I have NO idea what it was. Might have been meet and greets, might have been meeting a C/A in the training department (through absolute happenstance) who put my stuff in, might have been my app popped to the top of the pile when the person in charge was getting ready to go home and feed their dog and they were just like "sure, whatever, interview this dork".
Two things you can be sure of, imho. 1: You can't control how the spice flows. You pays your money and takes your chances. The only thing you have any control of us how much effort you put in. and 2) (really kind of a corollary to (1)): You won't know how your career went until it's over.
Life is full to overflowing of crap to worry about already, don't borrow trouble trying to decipher a black box which most likely doesn't even HAVE an algorithm, just a lot of slightly-broken parts whirring around and producing largely random sparks.