Regrets

JACKASS · Post by **JACKASS** » Tue May 11, 2004 1:37 am

Does anyone know anyone who regreted getting their education.

If not then getting an education can't be a bad thing can it?

Why do I feel like I shouldn't put it on my resume then.

Hell I know guy's who've recived B.J.'s and they regreted it.

Not till the next morning, but they did regret it.

And yet not one person that I know who has completed post secondary has regeted it. Why is that.

Try to avoid examples that include Robert Milton and Air Canada or high school dropouts that pactice medicine when telling me my Degree is Worthless.

hz2p · Post by **hz2p** » Tue May 11, 2004 5:56 am

If I understand correctly, you say you have a degree in BJ's. You'll go far in any organization if you use your head, I've always been told

Seb · Post by **Seb** » Tue May 11, 2004 7:20 am

maybe you should put your heads together and see what you come up with

Flybabe · Post by **Flybabe** » Tue May 11, 2004 9:29 am

Barring another slam like on the last thread on education

- if it were me, I'd put it on there. To me (and this is my own opinion) an education is an accomplishment. I'd be proud of it. There may some things that might not be pertinent ( i.e further education in Swahili as a second language or maybe gemology, just as examples). PR training? Put it on there. Business mgmt? Put it on there. I'm working on a Natural Resources degree and even though it may not be pertinent to flying for Calm Air (as an example only) I'd put it on there. Will it matter? Maybe, maybe not. Who knows?

You and only you can make the decision whether or not to include something on your resume. I really don't think you'll be chastized for it.

Now... if you want to know what NOT to include on your resume here's an example from my own experience:

If you are applying for a position as co-pilot on a large turbine twin (let's say for shits and giggles it's a Dash-7) and you have jet time (again, let's say a Citation), you might rethink it, particularly after the CP tells you "I can't believe that you would want to go back to flying a crapped out -7 when you have jet time". Can you hear that resume hitting the garbage?

Good luck in your decision.

just another pilot · Post by **just another pilot** » Tue May 11, 2004 11:43 am

Yep. There is somthing they didn't tell you in flight school, be careful not to get over qualified. No one (well almost no one) wants to hire a 1000 hour turbine guy to fly a Navajo. Well, off to the warehouse..

co-joe · Post by **co-joe** » Tue May 11, 2004 2:55 pm

I have an aviation diploma...would you like fried with your burger sir?

Seriously I am not ashamed of my college edumakation but if I had say done a trade, I would have been making 30 bucks an hour when I was out of work instead of going into soo much debt at 10 an hour.

PS, I badly regretted (receiving) a BJ once (my first) when her boyfriend and 6 of his buddy's showed up at my house to kick my ass!

Ralliart · Post by **Ralliart** » Tue May 11, 2004 4:28 pm

Yes I regret doing a 2 year Aviation Diploma when I could have done my flight training on my own and saved millions, while still being qualified to do the same flying job I'm doing now. I would have gone to college/uni on the side to get a real degree, perhaps over a longer period of time. That's my 2 cents.