Originally Posted by
jrmyl
I agree with flyboyike. I wish I had gotten a degree in anything but aviation. It really is a useless degree to have. If I had gotten a business degree, for example, I could have went into management somewhere when times were tough in the aviation sector.
Just because you want to be a pilot doesn't mean you need a degree in it.
You are exactly correct. One never knows. Perhaps some day, a person will lose their medical or something else precludes flying for a living. An aviation degree isn't totally useless but isn't particularly useful in the non-aviation community.