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Considering career in Aviation Maintenance or...
11 years 3 months ago - 11 years 3 months ago #29034
by 13fcolt
Considering career in Aviation Maintenance or... was created by 13fcolt
Looking for some feedback from those in the know. The job market is not being kind and I'm getting close to the end of my gibill (19 months). I was previously pursuing helo pilot with a BS in aviation management but with the changes to the gibill that got shot down. As it stands I'll run out before finishing the degree. (thank you hope & change 
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Looking for alternatives in aviation so I can transfer most of my credits and I have the mechanical aptitude in excess. Also considering that since training and testing is required, I wont get pushed out by cheap, unskilled labor, like in construction.
The only other option career counselors seem to put in front of me is going into Law Enforcement. I'm not entirely against it, but it is down on the list as a "plan B". Any insight on that would be helpful as well. Aside from never getting my stolen tools back, or getting hassled at the gun counter for "buying a gun like that", I really don't know much about LE.
Thanks!
).Looking for alternatives in aviation so I can transfer most of my credits and I have the mechanical aptitude in excess. Also considering that since training and testing is required, I wont get pushed out by cheap, unskilled labor, like in construction.
The only other option career counselors seem to put in front of me is going into Law Enforcement. I'm not entirely against it, but it is down on the list as a "plan B". Any insight on that would be helpful as well. Aside from never getting my stolen tools back, or getting hassled at the gun counter for "buying a gun like that", I really don't know much about LE.
Thanks!
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11 years 3 months ago #29053
by OleCowboy
You seem to and say you have strong and high degree of mechanical skills. Then I head to the welding and fabrication field, which is what I did when I retired from the Computer engineering business. Go for the advanced techniques in welding and fabrication and you can knock 3 x what you would ever make in the A&P trades. A good MIG man and make a decent living, add in TIG and then get into exotics, oil field piping etc and you can make $100k++
OR you can open a welding and fab shop like I did and yes I was retired and did for the fun of it working in the offroading Jeep fab field which was my first love in life I did well. Local wages for fab work were running as much as $80 an hour.
I know a guy with a Miller Bobcat on the back of his flatbed truck and has a MIG unit and a TIG unit and he works location work on the ranches and business here in S Tex, he knocks down well past $100k. Another friend of mine has a offroad shop welding and fab on his property. Its a first class shop and he is grossing right at $500k a year and only has one employee who chases tools and sweeps the floors.
As for working for the govt. go in at 8, get off at 5, don't let the door hit you in the azz on the way out. Make WAY for the inlaws, outlaws, gays, crooks, straights, transgenders, and every single minority groups you can imagine all who have a 100% promotion rate, come in when they want, leave when they want and if YOU are the hard worker and care about the job you do for the taxpayer, you will find yourself working on weekends doing SOMEONE ELSES WORK...ask me how I know.
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I worked in in the aviation business, AFL-CIO-IAM (International Association of Machinists) Dallas Love Field Local. First its not real high pay and I was a fuel injection specialist. The low pay prompted me to go back to college.13fcolt wrote: Looking for some feedback from those in the know. The job market is not being kind and I'm getting close to the end of my gibill (19 months). I was previously pursuing helo pilot with a BS in aviation management but with the changes to the gibill that got shot down. As it stands I'll run out before finishing the degree. (thank you hope & change
Looking for alternatives in aviation so I can transfer most of my credits and I have the mechanical aptitude in excess. Also considering that since training and testing is required, I wont get pushed out by cheap, unskilled labor, like in construction.
The only other option career counselors seem to put in front of me is going into Law Enforcement. I'm not entirely against it, but it is down on the list as a "plan B". Any insight on that would be helpful as well. Aside from never getting my stolen tools back, or getting hassled at the gun counter for "buying a gun like that", I really don't know much about LE.
Thanks!
You seem to and say you have strong and high degree of mechanical skills. Then I head to the welding and fabrication field, which is what I did when I retired from the Computer engineering business. Go for the advanced techniques in welding and fabrication and you can knock 3 x what you would ever make in the A&P trades. A good MIG man and make a decent living, add in TIG and then get into exotics, oil field piping etc and you can make $100k++
OR you can open a welding and fab shop like I did and yes I was retired and did for the fun of it working in the offroading Jeep fab field which was my first love in life I did well. Local wages for fab work were running as much as $80 an hour.
I know a guy with a Miller Bobcat on the back of his flatbed truck and has a MIG unit and a TIG unit and he works location work on the ranches and business here in S Tex, he knocks down well past $100k. Another friend of mine has a offroad shop welding and fab on his property. Its a first class shop and he is grossing right at $500k a year and only has one employee who chases tools and sweeps the floors.
As for working for the govt. go in at 8, get off at 5, don't let the door hit you in the azz on the way out. Make WAY for the inlaws, outlaws, gays, crooks, straights, transgenders, and every single minority groups you can imagine all who have a 100% promotion rate, come in when they want, leave when they want and if YOU are the hard worker and care about the job you do for the taxpayer, you will find yourself working on weekends doing SOMEONE ELSES WORK...ask me how I know.
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