Originally Posted by
VariablePitchP
Do the degree and you’re just tacking on an extra decade (minimum) of student loans. In the nicest way that degree is going to be worth not the paper it’s written on. You don’t need it to be a pilot, and it’s not going to be any use for anything else. It looks neat on the prospectus I’m sure and it’ll be interesting, but what are you getting for your tens of thousands of pounds that you’ll ultimately pay?
Want to be a pilot? Learn to be a pilot.
Fair point - I wanted to do the degree to have something under my belt to help get in to the industry (and also something to fall back on incase of any issues with the pilots saving, ie what if the costs tripple in 5 years, then i'm gonna be saving for even longer!), not as a pilot but just as a job for while I am saving to self fund for the pilot training. I know you say "want to be a pilot, learn to be a pilot" and that is the ultimate plan, but I do need to have a decent job that will allow me to save the funds to do it first and I don't want a dead end office job in an industry I have no interest in and spend the next 5-10 years hating my life while I am savings, so I figured the degree (which will be £14k in total, paid back out of salary directly, plus interest though) would help me to land a job (not a pilots job!) in the industry so I can be working and learning within the industry about other areas of the set up while I am saving for the training - is that not a good idea, is it better to just get a job in a call center then or fast food joint (some of them are actually decent pay these days!) for the next 5/10 years while saving, over doing that anyway alongside the aviation degree at the airport?
Obviously the first thing I need to do is try and get a Class 1 to make sure I don't have anything that I don't know about!