Originally Posted by
DarkSideMoon
Just don’t expect it to get you a non aviation job once you’ve been at the airlines for awhile, especially if you never used the degree. Buddy of mine with an aero engineering degree took a job at a car manufacturer 10 months after college even though he wanted to work in aerospace, his reasoning was that if he was using his degree for something he’d remain competitive, but after about a year of not doing engineering work he said your chances of getting employed as an engineer somewhere start to plummet dramatically. In a bad job market, why would someone hire a furloughed airline pilot who got a degree a decade ago and never used it, over someone fresh out of college?
there are also a lot of jobs (especially for the government) that don't really care what degree you have as long as you have one. I've seen so many job postings on USAJobs that just say "accredited Bachelors degree" with no specific major listed. I knew of a guy who had a bachelors in Media and worked for a media company, and then got hired to be a Federal Air Marshal.