Become an aero engineer!
I graduated with an MEng in Aerospace Engineering in 2001 and started with Rolls-Royce a few months later.
I have recently secured a part-sponsorship with an airline and I am certain that the past few years of developing and testing Trents and RB211's have got me my place on the first attempt.
I have a huge understanding of the gas turbine and numerous successes to my name in my short engineering career. My mathematical and problem solving skills have been kept very active and thus the aptitude tests for sponsorship were not such a shock to the brain.
Coz i work in a huge company, approx 38,000 employees, then there are many other opportunities than just stress analysis. In fact, many engineers go into the business or logistical side of the RR. oh, and my working day is 8am till 4:30pm, rarely past 5pm. The employee-run flying club charges are £60 a year membership and £39 per hour in C150, possibly the cheapest in the country!
Even though i will soon be fulfilling my lifetime ambition i am still going to miss my current job, and i am not really a great engineer.
Being a teacher is a very stable and rewarding job (if you enjoy being with kids all day), but will you really develop your mind, become a good teamworker, become a leader, be successful and keep up to date with the aviation industry by teaching trig every week? i think not.
IFSD
p.s. i know that a teacher is technically a leader, but a teacher is a leader of children - does not count in the real world.
