Originally Posted by
Kjazz130
MOGuy, the important thing is whatever you do make it because you wanted to do it. Not for DAL, not for any job. If you are interested in the area you will study in the masters program and you see personal benefit, then do it. If you are getting a pay to play online degree to impress DAL, skip it. If you volunteer with an organization because it is a cause dear to you then devote more time. If you are calling around to see which volunteer organization fits best in your schedule so you can log the hours don’t bother. If you like the place you work and feel like your skills and leadership will help the company and give you job satisfaction, then apply for an open management position. If you get hired into a management position and are working 60-80 hours a week at a job you hate then it will not benefit your application to DAL. There are things that look good on an app but in the end if you get the interview and have nothing good to say about those experience then they won’t matter. Good on you for putting your family first in your decisions, keep that up and you will get where you want, and are suppose, to be.
Thanks for the reply. It’s actually something I’m interested and in a field I can apply to my current job as well as open opportunities down the road if by some off chance I did not make it to the legacies or lost a medical. It is with an accredited aviation university, the same one where I obtained my “brick-and-mortar” B.S. degree. Two years ago I was at this same crossroad and decided not to start it. Had I done so I wouldn’t even be here asking. Now I’m at that crossing again and my thought is that I could make the mistake I did a few years back or fast forward two years from now and not have to still be wondering “what if?”.
Good input from everyone. It’s a tricky thing to navigate. Many of us were coming out with new wings and a license to learn at the tail end of the crash and the paths to a major weren’t as clear cut as they are now for a freshly minted CFI.
✈️