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azpilot84 said:
Yeah, but you'd also pretty much start near your career's top salary potential.
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If you teach history classes here in Korea then you could be making close to $45-60,000/year. There area lot of foreign language high schools that look for teachers that can instruct AP calculus, history, physics, chemistry, etc. Pay ranges from $70-110/hr, with 12-15 teaching hours a week.
 
Customx said:
If you teach history classes here in Korea then you could be making close to $45-60,000/year. There area lot of foreign language high schools that look for teachers that can instruct AP calculus, history, physics, chemistry, etc. Pay ranges from $70-110/hr, with 12-15 teaching hours a week.
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Are you teaching in english or the foreign language? I could do AP calc and physics with my engineering degree If I got a teaching cert. but the foreign language classes in high school were not my shining star so to speak. I'm sure with immersion, i'd pick up the language, but I don't have any marketable second language skills.
 
wheelsup said:
But I would wager that the most successful people in this world don't have a degree.
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NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!!!!
That is a completely FALSE statement.
That statement is wrong.
That is incorrect.
That is not true.




Of the top ten richest people in the United States, ALL of them were college EDUCATED. Every single one of them attended college. Four of them dropped out half way through, but Bill Gates and Paul Allen were still very EDUCATED! Bill Gates attended Harvard and scored an amazing 1590 on his SAT's! Paul Allen attended Washington State University for two years and his dad was a director at the University of Washington.


My favorite fact comes from the list below. This is the list of all the billionaires in the United States who are 50 years old or younger with atleast 2.0 BILLION dollars:

1. Sergey Brin (34). Bachelors degree and Stanford Masters Degree.
2. Larry Page (33). Bachelors degree and Stanford Masters Degree.
3. Michael Dell (45). College dropout.
4. Steven Ballmer (50). Bachelors degree and Stanford MBA.
5. Abigail Johnson (45). Bachelors degree and Harvard MBA.
6. Pierre Omidyar (39). Bachelors degree.
7. Leonard Blavatnik (49). Bachelors degree.
8. Eric Schmidt (50). Bachelors degree and Berkeley PHD.
9. Edward Lampert (44). Bachelors degree.
10. Jeffrey Bezos (43). Bachelors degree.
11. Lee Bass (50). Bachelors degree and University of Pennsylvania MBA.
12. Steven Cohen (50). Bachelors degree.
13. Mitchell Rales (50). Bachelors degree.
14. David Filo (40). Bachelors degree.
15. Wesley Edens (45). Bachelors degree.
16. Mark Cuban (48). Bachelors degree.
17. Michael Novogratz (42). Bachelors degree.
18. Peter Briger Jr. (42). Bachelors degree and University of Pennsylvania MBA.
19. Henry-Nicholas-III (47). Bachelors degree and UCLA PHD.
20. Jerry Yang (38). Bachelors degree.
21. Jon-Stryker (48). Bachelors degree and Berkeley Masters.
22. Omid Kordestani (43). Bachelors degree and Stanford Masters.
23. Tom Gores (42). Bachelors degree.

Do you see a trend? Sure, some of the older billionaires were not college educated. They grew up in a different era. But it is now the year 2008. Times have changed. College education is the norm, not the exception. Of all the multi billionaires in the United States 50 or younger, all of them attended college and only one of them dropped out.

My point is if you want to be rich, the best thing to do is to become educated.
 
L-16B said:
I got a degree in History -very useless except for teaching, and you can't deny being a teacher is a pretty damn stable and secure job. Plus i'd make about 15k more than i'm making now as a first year f.o. :laff:
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Aww, come on, everyone knows there's no future in history.

Get it? Oh, I kill myself! :)
 
OldTownPilot said:
Are you teaching in english or the foreign language? I could do AP calc and physics with my engineering degree If I got a teaching cert. but the foreign language classes in high school were not my shining star so to speak. I'm sure with immersion, i'd pick up the language, but I don't have any marketable second language skills.
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All of the classes at a foreign language school are taught in English. It's the best way to immerse students in English without studying abroad. If you were seriously interested in trying to teach I could give you the names of the schools via PM.
 
If I get furloughed in the airlines I'd earn my CFI for the first time and start flight instructing, then never go back to the airlines again (charter, freight, or drop it all together). Good thing I majored in a degree not related to aviation!
 
I've been living plan B for about 7 yrs now. The writing was on the wall for me to be furloughed, so I took a l.o.a. on Aug 27, 2001 and we all know what happened 2 weeks later. I went into business into the real estate rental, rehab, & development. I've also entered into the carwash & mini-storage business. I'm the President, janitor and everything in between. It's nice being home, but some days I am miserable because I'm not in an airplane somewhere.
When I left flying, I quit cold turkey; I went flying last April/May in a 172, got a BFR and went again about a week later. So in 7 yrs I've logged 2 hrs. I've been debating getting back in the crazy aviation industry but just can't seem to pull the trigger.
I'm 34, got 1550 TT, 1100 of that is 727 s.i.c. Yes the math is correct. Who knows maybe I'll be back in the saddle when I'm 40.
It's hard leaving aviation, and it could be even harder to return.
 
Well, this IS my plan B.

Guess if I were to lose my job, I'd go back to the medical field. Although, it would be very reluctantly.
I've also considered getting into rental real estate. Buying/ renting properties.
 
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