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Back to degree chat for a little bit. At least on the non-flying side aviation feels like one of the last industries you can have a great career trajectory without a degree, or even any formal schooling if you get your A&P through work experience. Two of the airlines I have worked for had CEOs that started their careers as mechanics and eventually worked their way to the top. In my case, after getting my A&P and first set of MAC tools for effectively free courtesy of the city of Memphis 13 and a half years ago I've had a great career so far. I've gone from a mechanic at a heavy maintenance facility, to a lead at a hangar, to a mechanic at an airline, to a maintenance supervisor at an airline, to a structures engineer at an airline and finally a major repair embodiment engineer for a multinational aviation consortium. Many of the airlines currently have apprenticeship programs and partner with A&P schools as there just aren't enough licensed mechanics in the US right now. Its not uncommon to be able to go straight from school to a Major airline and very common to be able to go straight to a budget airline out of school. When I got out of school it was almost impossible to even get hired at a regional airline without 3-5 years of experience. And starting pay is almost triple what it was when I got out of school. A few months back UAL was offering a $75,000 signing bonus and would start you a few rungs up the pay scale to try and hire people in San Francisco.
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