Originally Posted by
McBoo
Hi all,
I am lucky enough to have been offered a place with NATS and subject to medical and security clearance will hopefully be starting college in September.
If I am sent to Gloucester I will have to rent a room.
However, I live around 1h20m from Whiteley. Does anyone with experience of the course think this would be a doable commute factoring in the amount of study required etc?
Not having to shell out for a room in the week would make my home situation a lot easier, with a mortgage to cover.
Thanks in advance!
To be honest it depends on you. I get what rocketscientist is saying, i personally wouldn’t have been able to keep up with book work if I was doing an hour plus commute every day. Saying that, there was a few on my course and plenty on courses around me who did significant commutes.
Course is 8-4 and it leaves pretty much no time for actually studying what you learn so that is all done in your own time. If you know that you are disciplined enough to still put in the extra hours, commuting is possible. If not it’s worth getting a room closer to CTC. The money you spend on rent for 12-18 months in whitely will be paid back to you 100x over if you end up validating.