Get the degree. Get it.
It will only take up three years of your life (depending on course). As F'n'KT says, if something does happen to you, hopefully it won't, but if it does, u really will find it a lot harder to find a decent job without a degree.
You will have great fun at university, probably get drunk every night, a have a new girlfriend for each day of the year! <img src="wink.gif" border="0">
The experience alone will be greatly beneficial.
Do something you enjoy, don't do aeronautical engineering just because you think it will help you with the course; you don't need it to fly an aircraft. You will find that if you are doing a course that you enjoy, you will probably do better at it anyway.
If you are fortunate enough to get sponsorship and eventually get a job, there is nothing to say that you will not get laid off....god forbid, another Sept 11th perhaps. <img src="frown.gif" border="0"> You will have a greater chance of getting another job, maybe not necessarily a flying job, but it will be a job.
Anyway, that's what I think about it!
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