I'll keep an eye out for the flying pigs then....

 

What kinds of other jobs have you been looking at which leads you to believe that no one else cares about grades? I think that you might be leading yourself down this road of thinking that is the case. Sure there are jobs out there that aren't going to care what grades you made in college or even if you went to college; but to say that the airlines are the *only* employers to care about grades is very shortsighted.

As for your comment about not wanting/planning to go the majors, why is that? You would certainly be in the minority again if you are a young airline pilot planning a long term career in the airlines and NOT really want to go to the majors. Are you thinking that your past history will keep you from going to the majors someday?

USMCFLYR

 

Not only that, but some time ago there was a USAF heavy pilot with a ton of experience to include instructor duty (whatever they call that in the AF - IP/EP, etc...), but he was worrying about high school GPA I think it was.

I can't imagine an employer looking at someone who has achieved what that person had achieved in the many years since high school and still use it as a metric. I've tried to tell some young kids just recently though that school could be fun and games right up until high school and then it got serious. That GPA will follow you around for a long time and can be a door opener or a door closer. It is an easier life without opportunities being taken away from you before you get a chance to prove yourself because you decided that you were different from the rest of the world and didn't need to take certain things seriously. IMO.

USMCFLYR

 

Pt. 91 gigs that I can't go to due to my low time. Using the regionals to get in and then right the heck out.

 

I have come to the conclusion that you have nothing intelligent to ever add to the conversation. G.W. graduated from Yale and Harvard. No matter what his grades were, he still graduated from the 2 most prestigious schools in the world. I'm sure you're thinking that since your GPA was higher, you are better than him. Your justification is shenanigans.

 

No, but i'm better than you.

 

Of course you are

 

I graduated ERAU Daytona in 09 with a 3.8 and a decent "whole package". I landed 4 interviews out of applying to over 700 positions (applying to anything and everything). It was my flight experience that got me the interviews.

As far as I'm concerned, this degree hasn't done a thing for me yet.. well maybe financial responsibility from a past mistake. I'm still somewhat optimistic about some payoff in the future though.

 

Actually it was more like a 2.75, which is higher than what John Kerry and Al Gore graduated with. And we can't compare it to the current president since he won't release his records.

 

So you are really saying that going to Riddle did little to nothing to advance your flying career, as you could have gotten your ratings elsewhere. But what you did get from attending Riddle is an enormous amount of debt. What's your payoff you will get for your lifetime of debt to student loans? a career at the regionals?