MaverickSawyer
Acolyte of the Probe
Well, after a year's hiatus, I'm headed back to college tomorrow afternoon. It's a two week course intended to be an introduction to the field of Airframe and Powerplant maintenance. If I stick with the program, I'll spend two years learning how to fix planes and their engines, then come out of the program with all I need to take the FAA exam, and should I pass that, I'll be able to start working on planes (or rockets, should I choose to take that route.)
To be honest, I'm a little nervous. I spent five years kinda coasting in college, trying to find something that interested me and that I would like to make a career of. I decided to step back and reevaluate my priorities, and came away from that wanting to work with my hands. Now, after a year away from school, I'm diving into a 6 hour a day, 5 day a week program that will take me from having no practical experience with airplane structures and engine systems to having spent 1900 hours learning and working on them. In two years.
I know I could be an engineer if I wanted to be, but I much prefer the satisfaction of fixing stuff over the headaches of designing something. I just hope I'm making the right choice with this. But that's part of why I am taking this intro course: to see if this is what I want to do. If it isn't... Well, I'll have to reevaluate again.:facepalm:
I knew that growing up would entail difficult decisions... I just never expected it to be about what the hell I want to do for a career.:uhh:
To be honest, I'm a little nervous. I spent five years kinda coasting in college, trying to find something that interested me and that I would like to make a career of. I decided to step back and reevaluate my priorities, and came away from that wanting to work with my hands. Now, after a year away from school, I'm diving into a 6 hour a day, 5 day a week program that will take me from having no practical experience with airplane structures and engine systems to having spent 1900 hours learning and working on them. In two years.
I know I could be an engineer if I wanted to be, but I much prefer the satisfaction of fixing stuff over the headaches of designing something. I just hope I'm making the right choice with this. But that's part of why I am taking this intro course: to see if this is what I want to do. If it isn't... Well, I'll have to reevaluate again.:facepalm:
I knew that growing up would entail difficult decisions... I just never expected it to be about what the hell I want to do for a career.:uhh: