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You should Major in: Patience and Common Sense.

Oh, and Dick Measuring.

Definitely, Dick Measuring.... :)

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Originally Posted by Excargodog (Post 2642859)

UCSF actually did have a basket weaving degree at one time. They called it Native American Textiles.

It wasn't under water.

The field is wide open, prime. Strike, while the iron is submerged and oxidizing.

A degree of any type, quality training and hours is what you need. Most often a CFI is in there too, to help get hours.

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Originally Posted by JohnBurke (Post 2642787)

Don't overlook the underwater basket weaving. When was the last time you ever heard of a furloughed underwater basket weaver?

Well, to be fair, when was the last time you ever heard of an employed underwater basket weaver? ;)

Probably as common as an Aeronautical Scientist.

Accounting. Not only is it a good job that you can do when you lose your medical, you'll also be able to find all that loose change that somehow mysteriously disappears from your paltry regional pilot joke of a paycheck due to payroll errors.

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Originally Posted by Excargodog (Post 2642859)

UCSF actually did have a basket weaving degree at one time. They called it Native American Textiles. I suppose you could get a graduate conjoint degree to do it underwater if you could come up with some sort of environmental tie-in. California university degrees are very permissive that way if you phrase the request properly. A natural fiber shelter for bleached coral, perhaps....

Rutgers beat ‘em to the punch: :p

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg-Q7j6DxL0

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Originally Posted by JamesNoBrakes (Post 2643831)

Well, to be fair, when was the last time you ever heard of an employed underwater basket weaver? ;)

Probably as common as an Aeronautical Scientist.

Glass half-full. When did you last see an underwater basket weaver in the unemployment line?

Instant seniority, very few ahead on the list. Ground floor plank-owner status. Lot's of room for research, technology development, and the market is virtually untapped. You'll be the first kid on your block to have the degree, and unquestionably the very first to ever come through the HR department with that qualification. Add in one-time appearances on shark week, large discounts on sushi, and a guaranteed brick on the walkway to the underwater basketweaver's hall of fame, and it's a deal that's hard to turn down.

Aeronautical science is jam packed with hopefulls, and the degree is meaningless because the final exam has one question in two parts. The answers are pull back to go up, pull back more to come down again.

There's an extra-credit question regarding the world's fastest land animal, and no, it's not the cheetah.

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Originally Posted by Quarryman (Post 2643977)

Great degree except that it requires math.

Also possibly the only profession with a higher depression and suicide rate than dentists, and dentists have no reason to live.

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Originally Posted by JohnBurke (Post 2644134)

Also possibly the only profession with a higher depression and suicide rate than dentists, and dentists have no reason to live.

Tell that to Beechcraft.

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Originally Posted by JamesNoBrakes (Post 2644231)

Tell that to Beechcraft.

You mean the place where dentists go when seeking redemption?

That didn't work out so well.

Perhaps the reason that my last crown said "raytheon."