Aviation careers you may not have thought about enough...
- Licenced (i.e. maintenance) engineer, many starting points, just search this forum for many threads about it.
- Chartered (research / design / management) engineer, similarly - but the main starting point is usually a degree in aeronautical engineering.
- Aviation researcher, generally could be achieved by anybody with a technical degree (physics, aeronautics, meteorology, biology, medicine...) and a lot of drive and ambition.
- Dispatcher or similar trades, many threads in the "Flight Ops, Crewing and Disatchers" forum.
- Become a steward / stewardess
- Look at entering the microlight industry, many fascinating jobs (most of which seem to involve being a microlight flying instructor), the medical and eyesight standards are rather more relaxed than for transport flying (presumably since you can only kill one or two people at a time rather than 300).
- Do a degree in meteorology and become an aviation meteorologist.
None of them are easy, all are rewarding, most don't mind too much about your eyesight, some of them even pay quite well too.
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