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Marill12@reddit

Go to a trade school , Plumber and electricians earning pretty good these days so you can pay ur flight school debt too

PS there is rampant unemployed in college degrees too unless if you do Medical or Engineering non CS

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3QuarterDeflection@reddit

Do you already have a pilot job or how are you flying airplanes now? If you already have a job I don’t understand what the degree is for.

Hiring has been pretty good for the last 6 months at least for majors and regional airline hiring. Expecting a small slow down in the summer as class sizes are currently getting small again. And then continued hiring after.

You can use your aviation ratings towards something like 60 hours of an aviation degree with some universities btw.

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fgflyer@reddit (OP)

I’m building a lot of multi time flying the 340A, but no, I do not already have a flying job.

I have connections and I’ve networked a little, but that’s it.

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3QuarterDeflection@reddit

Get a job. If I couldn’t get a job in the next 3 weeks by hand walking my resume into every 135 operator within 1 hour of me twice per week this would be my next step….

If I didn’t have my instructor certificate I would join a flying club and get my flight instructor certificate in the flight club. Then I’d set up a website and start advertising my new business.

Big cities you’ll get 100hrs per month I’m not sure in rural areas.

I’d join every cadet program I could join. Then at 1500 I’d apply to the airlines if that’s your goal. If not I’d keep applying to 135s in person walking my resume in literally every week.

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Marill12@reddit

Damn smart

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One_Rip_5535@reddit

Do you have a job at all? Or are you paying for your flying?

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Bowzy228@reddit

There are plenty of online aviation degrees that will give you college credits for your certificates. ( TASU, UVU, Purdue Global and liberty University are well known for that) if you just wanna check the box. Or go to PSA or ENVOY and wait for a flow date. You’re still very young in my opinion.

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TESUPilot@reddit

Bachelor of Science in Aviation Flight Technology at Thomas Edison State University. You get credit for pilot certificates, and you can transfer in study.com and Sophia credits which are quicker, cheaper, and easier than traditional credits. The hardest math you have to do is college algebra and statistics, which you can take with study.com which is open book.

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LaggingIndicator@reddit

Get a degree online in something you care about enough that you’ll stick out the classes. Keep working full time while you do this.

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fgflyer@reddit (OP)

Full-time online school is still full-time. I don’t know how that’s going to be feasible while I’m already working full-time. Then again I have absolutely no idea how college works so I don’t even know what I would do.

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SpartanDoubleZero@reddit

Full time online does not take a ton of effort. I’m mid 30s, enrolled taking 15 semester hours, I spend between 6 and 10 hours total a week on course work depending on the number of assignments I have a 4.0 and I’m gonna be finishing my BS in the next year. University takes a lot less effort than you think when you have some real life experience under your belt.

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roguemenace@reddit

"full time" online school as an adult really isn't full time.

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indecisivepansexual@reddit

Not every online college is full time. You can take one or two classes at a time if you need to.

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One_Rip_5535@reddit

I took two online classes last semester, each counted for three credits, and they were both very easy and I spent maybe three hours a week on them. 12 credits a semester is considered full-time, but generally people take about 15, in order to get 120 total over the course of eight semesters.

It sort of depends if you’re going to college to check a box or if you’re going to college to actually engage with it and enjoy it and learn new things. I started college at 24. I’m in a very lucky situation where I’m able to do this without going into debt or anything. But I’m having a lot of fun doing research, building relationships with professors, and learning new things. I don’t know how closely airlines look at your degree, but if you did some online program for your whole bachelors, they might be able to see that it’s sort of fake, but they also might not care.

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One_Rip_5535@reddit

I graduated in 2019 and went to flight, and then I just began my degree last summer after instructing for a couple years. . I said the exact same thing as you, for years, that I had “no idea what I would major in.“ the truth is, I don’t think you really know until you go to school. And you don’t need to know in your first year. You generally don’t get degree specific until your second year at the earliest and even then if you take some classes that aren’t degree specific, it still counts towards your bachelors.

I started out thinking that I would do atmospheric science, which has a lot of math, and similarly I am not good at math, so I spent last summer studying math for three hours a day to prepare myself, and then I took calculus 1 at a community college with a support course and it was really easy. I took linear algebra this semester, and it was a lot more difficult, but it was still doable, I think I’ll end up with a B but I’m not sure yet, I just took the final today. At this point I switched my major may be three times but I’m absolutely loving college and I’m really excited about all the opportunities it’s opening up. There’s plenty of things I didn’t know interested me until I took clases in them. But anyways, you don’t have to take a major that requires a lot of math.

There’s plenty of colleges that are really, really easy to get into. I am at my states flagship university, but I’m from a very small state, so it’s almost open admission. You can absolutely start at a community college and then transfer, or finish your bachelors online.

I don’t know where you’re located, but I do think it’s a good idea to go to school. I’m very fortunate that I was able to move back with Family and live with them for free while I go to school.

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rFlyingTower@reddit

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So I’m turning 25 in August, have my multi engine rating and just over 600TT. I’m flying a Cessna 340A right now. I work full-time, and I’m now realizing more and more that I’m basically shooting myself in the foot by not having a college degree with the way hiring is. I never even applied to any colleges when I graduated high school. And at this point, I don’t know if I can keep dragging out my career aspirations (and finances) for another 4+ years. I’d rather not be working on this stuff until I’m basically 30. Sure, I’ve been networking, and I have some connections, but that only gets you so far.

The only problem is, there isn’t really any other degree that interests me that I can think of. Nor do I have any idea about how to even get into college. I’m also downright horrible in math so I know I’m going to have to take remedial courses which will delay things even further. I graduated high school in 2020 with a 3.42 GPA.

Any recommendations on what I should do? Where I should go?

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