bullmastiff
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These days you can get credits for practically anything.. No reason why someone shouldnt be plugging away at the degree at least partrt ime
anyone under 21 sending resumes to regionals?
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IFly85
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higney85 said:now josh, have a beer and calm down, itll be OK... if you give me a darn resume I can get you a job so you ARENT sitting around for ANOTHER 3 years in school... geez lol
HAHA thanks man will do but I might have some new info on the "original" job but you'll have one monday at the latest
dieselman1220
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Im 20 I have my AS degree right now and plan on starting the UVSC online stuff in a few weeks. I have an interview with Express Jet and one at Colgan. XJ was a walk in Colgan was on my own but i did work for them as a ramp agent at ACT while i was in school so maybe you could consider it "walked in" My plan is to just get comfy in the right seat and finish my bachelors online slowly i cant see my self at a major any sooner than 6 years minimum so i feel like i have that much time to get it done. As far as the whole young pilot stuff it sucks, ive lost a handfull of fun flights in peoples Bonanzas and Barrons because of my age. Its ok though one guy who was 59 grabbed one of those slots flying a barron the had like 900/60 to my 800/170 and got a violaton for some reason or another because he said he couldnt keep up with the airplane. No offense at all to Older pilots the best pilots i have ever flown with were older gentleman, but it sucks when most people wont even give us younger guys a chance even though we may be more qualified. I dont understand all my students that are under 30 seem to learn to fly twice as quickly as guys over 30, for the most part. Its always going to be an ongoing battle though the young quick sharp pilots vs the older supposedly more expierienced just because he/she is older pilot.
mrivc211
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27 is a heck.......no let me back track..........27 is a hel*l of a lot different than 19.....or 20......or 21.....or 22.......or 23. Inmy opinion I've matured more in the last 5 years, than I have in the previous 15 before that.
higney85
Property of Scheduling
Guys, as an upadate... I have been 21 now for a month and just completed an interview with Pinnacle (yesterday- I feel it went great!) and now I got a call from ASA.. I was definately the youngest one out of the group at pinnacle to interview by at 3 years. I dont think age is as much of a big deal, the regionals are now just using the ATP written as a benchmark requirement (aka- make you be 21). Also I am below the mins- I only have 875tt/240multi.
GrantHubbell
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Why on gods green earth do you not have a college education. Its great that you will be flying a ERJ but what will you say when older people move up to better flying jobs because they went to college. You beat them to the jets, but they beat you to the salary/career rewards.
Besides college is a time to have a good time and party. I know that it is peoples most exciting and best memories pf life.
My .02
higney85
Property of Scheduling
Umm.. 2x in an entire paragraph... the entire thread pertains to being under 21... not sure what the issue is there...
FlyingNole
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Exactly...whoever choses a job over college is freakin nuts...You missed out big time brotha. Forget the education aspect, the time in college is one you can never have again in your life.
GaTechKid
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To hell with this age 21 requirement bs! Has NWA gotten the bankruptcy judge to abolish the child labor laws yet? Cuz I was watching my 13 year old nephew kick some a$$ playing Blazing Angles on Xbox Live and was like "damn that kid's got game. With that kind of hand-eye coordination he could totally land a dc-9 at Midway with Cat II minimums for $40 a week. That's like twice his weekly allowance. But I don't think he'd go for it. There's no ladder for airline flying...yet"
killbilly
Vocals, Lyrics, Triangle, Washboard, Kittens
College is not immediately available to everyone right out of the gate for lots of reasons. Nor is it necessarily an immediate good idea for everyone right after high school. Fortunately, they let you go back at any age.
If you've got $5 for flight training, you can afford to get an education.
Our world (macro sense) is about to get a lot more competitive and if we think we're going to remain a world power without educated young people, you'd better learn to be handy with a scrub brush and do a crash course in "Traditional Han" because that day may come.
killbilly
Vocals, Lyrics, Triangle, Washboard, Kittens
Doug, I agree with you - I've made that pretty clear in other correspondence. All's I'm saying is that it's not always a) immediately available at 18, and b) not everyone is ready to go right away. In my case, it was a instead of b. I'm rectifying that.
But I don't think anyone is a moron or stupid because they didn't go, or couldn't.
Just a little battle I'm having with my 18 year-old nephew who's a smart kid, has the resources, but is taking "a few semesters off to work at Pizza Hut and hang out with his unmarried 22 year old friend with two kids".
Out of the people that "took a break" after high school before attending college, very few actually went back.
Not that it's impossible because it isn't, but a lot more improbable than many realize.
Out of the people that "took a break" after high school before attending college, very few actually went back.
Not that it's impossible because it isn't, but a lot more improbable than many realize.
killbilly
Vocals, Lyrics, Triangle, Washboard, Kittens
That must mean a lot to you. Good luck on that.
If I'd gone to college when I was 18, I would have flunked out. I found myself right out of high school with no plans (had enlisted in the Marine Corps, and blew out my knee my senior year - they couldn't take me) and through another set of circumstances, had to work full time. I couldn't hack night school.
Older and more mature now, I plan to go back. And for what it's worth, both of my parents earned their degrees in their 40s - Dad did an executive MBA at 40-something, Mom finished her bachelors and masters degrees in her 50's.
The point of telling you that is that yes, it's less probable on his return, but it *is* possible. Hopefully, the kid sees it your way. In retrospect, yeah, maybe I could have done both, but I didn't. I didn't have many regrets, not really, until recently, when I realized that I wanted a change of career. It put a lot of things into perspective.
Tell him to email me and I'll tell him all about how it's possible to not go, and then list off the numbers of doors that are closed to me without a degree.