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If you wanna blow another $6000 why dont you just get a high class whore for a week, she'll teach you to suck cock, which is all you need to know when you have 202 hours in New Zealand/Auz.
I don't know the value of a degree when you are starting out. An instructors rating, coupled with the forementioned will help you more, I think, but you'll still have to work two jobs to stay alive... (I did my training at an airfield 5nm from massey, and socalised with the massey oakes. Lets just say they do things different there, ay?)
Timair