Hi guy.
I have been reading all the "should you have a degree" post but found none that really reflect my circumstances. Let me explain....
I have just finished my second year of a four year degree in Civil Engineering. I did very badly and have transfered to year two of Project Management, which is a very similar course but without the maths!
Thing is I hated the civil engineering and there is every likelyhood I will hate the new course as well.
Also if I end up failign the course after four years I really will have wasted my time.
University would be much more bareable if I could do my PPL or something while at university, then at least I would be doing something towards my chosen career. My course is full time so I cant work and dont have any funds to pay for a PPL.
What I really want to do is just quite and start to work towards my ATPL licence as that is what I want to do, not civil engineering. I started doing it as a dackup but now, even if I couldn't fly for a living for whatever reason I would not do civil engineering as a career anyway. I would prefer to do a differnt degree that I wanted to do if it ever came to getting a career outside of flying and doing it as a mature student at the time. It feels like I am doing a degree that I hate and that will have no realy impact on my flying career (as its a backup, and one I wouldn't use anyway).
The things stopping me quitting are that an airline may see the quitting as a bad thing, and that they may feel that someone who has a backup plan is more the sort of person they want to employ.
All the other treads on here are from the point of view of someone who is going to go to university rather than someone who is already there and hateing it. So I would be very grateful of anyones thoughts on this dilema.
PS I am already 23 and will be 26 when I garduate.
Andy S