gymhaus
Rockin out with my chocks out
Hey again guys, good debate going here, and i am enjoying it thoroughly (seriously).
ok, first off, erau doesnt call itself that, a generally unbiased publication does and yes has since been repeated by the college, airliners, and other such critics. so i dont feel that the school is aying it as a ploy to seperate us from our money.
secondly, yes you are correct as i recently started paying back my loans and they are a considerable amount on a monthly basis. that said, i do stick to my previous statement in saying i dont regret it at all, because i don't let something like a green piece of paper that "holds some value" in our society stop me from doing the REAL concrete thing in life i love which is flying. truthfully i think people are crazy to pay you to do the most awesome job in the world and i think you should almost have to pay to do it just like a thrill ride, but hey our society works on money and money is power. afterall, first we get the money, then we get the power, thennnn we get the women! lol, but in honesty to do it all again i definitely agree and sounds like you do too that gen-ed classes are better taken at community college for much much less. also, 1988, i try not to take one example and use it as a concrete fact. you never know what was going thru the mind of that pilot that was hiring you. i find some people do attach a stereotype to riddle grads as rich kids, snobby, think their dont smell, etc. but truth is thats everywhere in society and actually in my 4 years there i found very little of that and a lot of real people just like me. also i find there is some rivalry around some college grads that there school was better such as spartan, und, fit, what have you. maybe the guy had something against riddle, but i got to say, just you saying that the other two guys came from riddle is a lot and a statistic in inself to show you the amount of pilots around the world that come from riddle. if its all a big scam then they sure seemed to fool me and thousands if not millions of others since its opening decades ago.
finally, i really dont want to pick on you for this man, but i cant say it without using you as the example to begin. history degree is not equal to an aviation degree. i know PILOTS, from erau i graduated with who work for airline's as dispatchers, also guys that are ATC from their minor, scheduling agents, line service, data intelligence gatherers (foqa), uav pilots, sales professionals, some servers, and to put it in personal terms i am applying to be an airport manager. while i dont have the job yet, i have done well enough to get to the final interview so far, and guess what, she was impressed i went to riddle and knew it by name. getting a job after graduation is kind of hard in the economy, but i have seen multiple pilots get jobs outside of just flying with an AS degree, because they can transfer the knowledge as pilots. there may have been a day where if you lost your medical and you couldnt fly anymore meant you were screwed but i find today its really not true, you just have to know where to look and be in the right place at the right time, so i dont know if you can really say learning from your experience with all due respect. as for your comment about getting a technical license of some sort, i cant say i have experience with that other than aviation so i dont know, but at the same time, i am not at all interested in being a nurse, doctor, lawyer, etc. and know i would hate it so i think that would be the biggest waste of time in money. life's too short to pursue things you dont really want. i would rather be paid 19,000 for a job i love than 60,000 for a job i hate. i dont have a family so i know thats must be pressure, but then again there are ways of investing your money wisely that can substite your paycheck such as starting your own business on the side. also 19,000 isnt bad from what i hear. not personal experience, but basically it cost a lot to tyoe rate you in a regional jet such as a crj, all of which you dont have to pay for anymore, which a lot of times people used to. in exchange for working for 19,000 your first year, you get free training that can laste you your entire career. the following year if you stay they usually bump your pay up considerably to the tune of near 30,000. once again this is what i heard and not what i know, but in my mind that seems to make a lot of sense and really sounds like a good deal. every job requires youto pay your dues to make the big bucks. aviation is no different. its not about the first 6 years of pay, its about the last 6 (how does 200k a year sound?, or 300k?) i could retire on that
you are right bud, they wouldnt keep their doors open this long if they weren'doing something right at riddle.
ok, first off, erau doesnt call itself that, a generally unbiased publication does and yes has since been repeated by the college, airliners, and other such critics. so i dont feel that the school is aying it as a ploy to seperate us from our money.
secondly, yes you are correct as i recently started paying back my loans and they are a considerable amount on a monthly basis. that said, i do stick to my previous statement in saying i dont regret it at all, because i don't let something like a green piece of paper that "holds some value" in our society stop me from doing the REAL concrete thing in life i love which is flying. truthfully i think people are crazy to pay you to do the most awesome job in the world and i think you should almost have to pay to do it just like a thrill ride, but hey our society works on money and money is power. afterall, first we get the money, then we get the power, thennnn we get the women! lol, but in honesty to do it all again i definitely agree and sounds like you do too that gen-ed classes are better taken at community college for much much less. also, 1988, i try not to take one example and use it as a concrete fact. you never know what was going thru the mind of that pilot that was hiring you. i find some people do attach a stereotype to riddle grads as rich kids, snobby, think their dont smell, etc. but truth is thats everywhere in society and actually in my 4 years there i found very little of that and a lot of real people just like me. also i find there is some rivalry around some college grads that there school was better such as spartan, und, fit, what have you. maybe the guy had something against riddle, but i got to say, just you saying that the other two guys came from riddle is a lot and a statistic in inself to show you the amount of pilots around the world that come from riddle. if its all a big scam then they sure seemed to fool me and thousands if not millions of others since its opening decades ago.
finally, i really dont want to pick on you for this man, but i cant say it without using you as the example to begin. history degree is not equal to an aviation degree. i know PILOTS, from erau i graduated with who work for airline's as dispatchers, also guys that are ATC from their minor, scheduling agents, line service, data intelligence gatherers (foqa), uav pilots, sales professionals, some servers, and to put it in personal terms i am applying to be an airport manager. while i dont have the job yet, i have done well enough to get to the final interview so far, and guess what, she was impressed i went to riddle and knew it by name. getting a job after graduation is kind of hard in the economy, but i have seen multiple pilots get jobs outside of just flying with an AS degree, because they can transfer the knowledge as pilots. there may have been a day where if you lost your medical and you couldnt fly anymore meant you were screwed but i find today its really not true, you just have to know where to look and be in the right place at the right time, so i dont know if you can really say learning from your experience with all due respect. as for your comment about getting a technical license of some sort, i cant say i have experience with that other than aviation so i dont know, but at the same time, i am not at all interested in being a nurse, doctor, lawyer, etc. and know i would hate it so i think that would be the biggest waste of time in money. life's too short to pursue things you dont really want. i would rather be paid 19,000 for a job i love than 60,000 for a job i hate. i dont have a family so i know thats must be pressure, but then again there are ways of investing your money wisely that can substite your paycheck such as starting your own business on the side. also 19,000 isnt bad from what i hear. not personal experience, but basically it cost a lot to tyoe rate you in a regional jet such as a crj, all of which you dont have to pay for anymore, which a lot of times people used to. in exchange for working for 19,000 your first year, you get free training that can laste you your entire career. the following year if you stay they usually bump your pay up considerably to the tune of near 30,000. once again this is what i heard and not what i know, but in my mind that seems to make a lot of sense and really sounds like a good deal. every job requires youto pay your dues to make the big bucks. aviation is no different. its not about the first 6 years of pay, its about the last 6 (how does 200k a year sound?, or 300k?) i could retire on that
you are right bud, they wouldnt keep their doors open this long if they weren'doing something right at riddle.
