Gmonroe80

Almost Finished with Bachelors in Criminal Justice

vettereddie

Good to see you go for the reason universities were originally set up, andvancement of knowledge and personal enrichment. I read an article in the Washington post about a girl who is sueing her school for not finding her a 50k+ job right out of college for business administration.

People going to college to make money are going for the wrong reason. I went because I like working with my hands, and not just repairing other peoples' stuff. I wanted to design, to create. However, the quickest way to learn the design principles necessary to do automotive and aircraft design is to go to a good technical college. It's not easy finding good technical guides for thermodynamics and fluid dynamics, not to mention buying a CAD and MATLAB software license for personal use thats not a university license is cost prohibitive, we're talking thousands of $$. Also, no one will hire an aircraft designer who doesn't have an engineering degree.

Statistically, though, the degree helps lifetime earnings. Where I'm at in the defense industry, the engineers come in at a GS-5, $35k a year. Some of my friends from high school went through vocational traning and came in at $45-50k out of high school with some tech secondary training. However, after 5 years that engineer is now a GS-13 making $80k while the tech is still stuck under $60k. Factor in student loans and 4 years out of the workforce for education and the degree starts paying off somewhere at the 10 year mark after graduating high school.

youngflyer

vettereddie, does the name Andy Kane ring a bell...

vettereddie

No, sorry. What platform, we have a few UAV's and I don't work on all of them.

senseiturtle

B.S. , LSU - 2001-2005
M.D., LSU - 2007-2011

Residency ?
Fellowship ?

I'll probably be done with school when I'm in my mid 30's.

NYNCTC

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Almost done with my English degree. Then onto my Masters, then to my Doctorate and Post Doc so I can be an English Professor. I will specialize in early British Lit.

youngflyer

He is Uav aircraft instructer in like patuxent or sum.

1SL0WTC

Hotel management / Hospitality at UNLV

A-snell

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I have a Masters in B.S. ...

13edge

LMAO... that's the best degree for getting paid.

AMT/Avionics here.

GQQSE13

BA-Business Administration and was 2 classes short for minors in accounting and economics to go w/ it from Monmouth College

NYNCTC

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Oh ya, I am at UNC - Charlotte for undergrad and will be at either Chapel Hill or Charlotte for Grad (depends on which one gives the better scholarship or stipends)