Originally Posted by
P40Warhawk
Lets agree to disagree there.
Having only your High School Diploma and Nothing else is the worst advise you can give.
Ive experienced it myself to have no further useful diplomas as a back up.
I told you guys where I ended up during Covid. Making 2000 After tax while working 7 days a week.
Imagine, you have been a Captain A380 in the ME. Making what? 180K a year and all of a sudden you get laid off and no back up diploma. You will end up doing those ****ty odd jobs like I did.
Going from a nice lifestyle to near poverty.
You should before going to Flightschool have a Plan B.
Therefore good to have something useful outside of aviation.
And NEVER say never that you need it or not.
Every experience is an experience. Nothing is useless. A studies also helps to mature a bit.
I have been working from when I was 12 years old. I have a long list of different jobs I have done so far.
From every job I learned something.
Maybe next to flying you like to start a small business in whatever field.
Many colleagues in the company I work in have a side business.
Dont make yourself fully dependent on Flying income.
I have seen to many guys who lost their medicals from one day to another. Loss of License insurance can be useful but wont help you for the rest of your life.
Again, a plan B or plan C is always good, so that you wont end up like where I did. Working your balls off for peanuts.
Besides, manual labor such as Electricians, Plumbers are always wanted. Maybe a good side business as well. They are wanted and can charge good rates.
Or when Uni as mentioned above.. Study for something you can find work in. Not like something useless like Philosophy, or History where the jobs are paid very bad.
I remember when I graduated from flightschool. The market was not good. I wish I had a good diploma, with which I could make good money. I worked 4 jobs at the same time.
Starting flight school with 23 years old, finish with 25, you have about 40 years of flying left. Plenty of time to build up a Pension fund. No need to rush.
Just saying.
By that logic a doctor should make sure they’re a qualified accountant before starting medial school… Just in case!
Makes no sense, you got smashed by covid, fine, lots of us did. But find me a 180K plumbing job you can walk back into having not touched a pipe for 20 years and I’ll be right there with you.
What career advisor have you ever met that first asks you what you want to do as a career, but then asks what totally irrelevant career field you first want to spend five years training in beforehand.
Where does it stop? Want to be a pilot? Become an accountant first. But what if ChatGPT ends accountancy. That mean you need to get 3 or 4 years training as a mechanic before you can train to be an accountant, before you can train to be a pilot? Meanwhile everyone else is settling into life as a TRE at easyJet making not far off 200k as you cart around a truck load of diplomas behind your two striped shoulders
