[QUOTE=ubermich]I got an aviation degree and do I regret it? No. When I was in your same position senior year of high school a lot of the instructors told me to major in something other than aviation as a backup plan; something useful, like finace. Then I talked to someone who hires and fires people for a large corporation. He told me that after a couple years of being out of college that if a person has no real world experience in that field, that he consideres the degree obsolete. One of my dad's clients who holds a similar position told him the same thing. So this meant to me that if I majored in finance and CFIed for a while then went on to a regional, then lost my medical, that I would be in the exact same place as I would be if I majored in aviation or history or dance.QUOTE]

I have heard/seen the same thing. If you do choose to major in something else, it will only work as a back up plan for a short time, i.e. a couple of years out of college. No decent paying employer is going to hire you and pay you more than you are making flying, if you got your degree in Business some 3-5 years ago and have never done anything with it since then. They have plenty of better options. What airline would hire someone who hasn't flown at all in the past 3-5 years??? Same idea.

Futher, there are plenty of jobs out there that require simply a college degree, no specific major, that pay well.

Look around, evaluate all your options, there is definately a way to make it all work, but that doesn't mean it will be easy.

If your happy, and you are sure it will make you happy, go with it. You only live once.