Originally Posted by
Drum
Some how our degrees in Engineering, the applied sciences, time in DC working in the acquisition budgeting, strategic planning, attaches at US Embassies, foreign service officers, pol mil advisors no, none of that prepares us for anything. Many bring a few decades of experience in with them outside of aviation.
But most certainly a degree from ERAU or some other "Harvard of the sky" and a few years at a regional make you any better?
I don't think so.
Buck makes a good point here.
Working in a union at an airline with a far more hostile management group prepares you more for working in a union here than does anything you listed. But please, tell me more about how "awesome" you are and anyone that didn't go military is scum of the earth.