Obviously you really don't understand the situation that the nation's air traffic system is in right now if you actually believe this. First of all, queeno can't be that much of a "dip#####" if he's not a controller, considering that the FAA is pretty much hiring anyone and everyone who's breathing. The job is everything that ATL TRACON says it is...I've watched since 2006 my father become more like a zombie than the fun loving man, who loved his job (would come home from work to play ATC simulator for hours), and had time to spend with his children, helping them through aviation training...Now when he's not at work he's literally either eating or sleeping off the exhaustion (cause forget those 15 minute breaks every two hours).
On the topic of CTI school, why in the world would you go and get a degree that is useless anywhere but the FAA? Great you went and paid $40,000+ to learn absolutely nothing about ATC, unless you're learning from an actual controller, which most programs don't offer, you have no idea what is going on and are in the same boat as the guy hired from Facebook who doesn't know how to run non-radar either...coming from a CTI school where the director of the CTI program informed me that my father had no business letting me read "that book", in referrence to the 7110, and where weather was taught by a flight instructor more interested in chatting with the plane obsessed student in the first row it occured to me that I was wasting my money on something that I could be hired for free of charge.
In essence, those who don't think ATC is all that bad right now with its authoritarian management and ridiculous work rules wreaking havoc on the lives of the controllers, or think its a neat major to have in college, think about the fact that you'll initially be making less than a Wendy's employee and then come talk to me about the new pay scale. In the mean time quit drinking the kool-aid.
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