Help pilots! I need some college recommendations!!!!

[bronco21016]

Completely untrue.

What you've got to understand is that anybody that's going to go after flying professionally seriously is going to be an incredibly driven individual. If you want to succeed in this industry, you need to be. You can't deal with the stress, the training, the checkrides, the time away from home, the stress and the low pay otherwise. If flying for a living doesn't work out for somebody like that, they're not simply going to go back home to work at Meijer for the rest of their lives.

They're going to tackle another professional career. Take me for example, I have a philosophy degree from Western that is about to serve me incredibly well. Since I'm furloughed and won't be recalled anytime soon (and even if I am, I won't go back), I'm headed to law school. Without that pre-law degree where would I be? Working at Meijer.

Go to college regardless. I'm sorry it didn't work out for you, but that's life. In the end education IS an investment.

Exactly, just getting any degree is better than no degree. Here I am with an aviation degree but I'm using it to get into grad school to get either an MBA or MPA. Now whether these degrees are worth anything more than a BA in Aviation is a completely different discussion because it seems like everyone has an MBA these days. However, the point is having that BA allows you to go even further down the road and get a higher education. Studies show that earning potential is closely related to level of education. Just look at Ian's graph on page 2.

So like others have said at least go to college. If the only thing you're really interested in is flying then go get an aviation degree and maybe you'll discover something along the way that you like better. Not the cheapest way to do it but what can ya do?

Be cool, stay in school.