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DYNASTY HVY
ok ,whats the deal about having to have a degree to fly jets?just want some opinions on this as one has to get trained on type anyway and the last time I looked Harvard and Yale etc had no flight schools !
My understanding is that someone a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away decided that having a degree shows that you have the ability to learn in a complex environment and apply yourself (I guess flight training doesn't require those skills?). Personally, I think its one of those "all other things being equal" things. If I'm looking at 2 resumes and all other things being equal, I'd probably hire the guy with the degree. Just one more way to sort applicants into big piles and small piles I guess.
Really, if management was smart, they'd drop the college requirement and hire a bunch of dumb drones right out of high school or something. Solve a lot of this management/labor, pay-us-what-were-worth/you'll-take-what-we-give-you-and-like-it stuff that goes on.
