Most folks I know have gone here:
Sheffield school aeronautics
When I started dispatching I only made 18,000 a year back in 96, currently Ime with UPS now and our starting salary is $60,000 so its not to bad.
Ive been here in Louisville for 10 Years now.
It helps alot to have friends where you want to go and get your resume in the door as long as they are the right friends.
As a UPS dispatcher I can jumpseat all over the world as often as I wish and you have to do a yeary FAM ride. Our average work week is 4 days a week and 36 hours.
Theres alot of folks out there with dispatcher cert. but only so many dispatcher jobs. At UPS we only have 68 total but the good news is that since no dispatchers want to be supervisors they hire our supervisors from outside the company. Also now the majority of dispatchers in the office have come from external hiring.