Originally Posted by
rudestuff
If you want to be a pilot, ditch the degree. You can always do one later. Save that money, put it towards flight training. Put that time towards working, saving and building your credit. You've got the basic plan, don't make it more complicated than it needs to be.
Thanks for the advice Rudestuff, the degree doesn’t cost me anything upfront, as in it would be via student finance which then gets paid back once you start earning over 25k a year - so even if I ditch the degree to get more hours (which is an option) then it wouldn’t give me any upfront money to put towards any flight training if that makes sense. I could of course ditch it for more working hours to allow me to save more, I just know from the aviation college they put you in to a lot of contacts at the airport so I was hoping it would also help me get a job in that area (as I can still work full time technically if they will fit the hours around the 1.5 days per week) but of course it’s an option to just try and get a job, but there isn’t much at the airport the moment (I’ve been looking) - I’ve got until mid Sept to secure something before the course, I will be trying to do that in the mean time and hopefully something will come up