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The conundrum....

  • 20-06-2007 8:20pm
    #1
    LoremIpsum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭


    Hi all, first time posting, go easy on me!

    Just started a low pay customer service job @ €23k. I'm 28 and have been job hopping for years now and it's screwing me. I like this new company and can easily stay with then for a few years. But there's a catch. I'm about to be offered a place on the DIT Surveying degree course, which takes 4 years. it starts in September, and I'd be finished at 32.

    Being blunt, I'm not sure what to do. The company has no promotion opportunities at all and the workload is almost non-existant, which suits me. I'm not worried about a house or car or any of that stuff, all I want to do is get my pilot's licence and fly (not commercially). Before anyone mentions flying being expensive, it's not if you do it sensibly - about €3000 a year for maybe 100 hours, which is nothing in flying terms.

    So, stay in the no-stress job and go flying, or go to college?


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  • #2
    daveg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,683 ✭✭✭daveg


    Go to college. Seriously. Your not worried about houses and stuff now but you will be in 4 years time when your where I am now at 32 (actually I'm now 33 since Sunday).

    I went back to college part time 3 years ago. I'm about to do my final year. It's opened a lot more doors and opportunities than I would have had if I did not go back to college.

    When you finish treat yourself to 4 weeks in Florida to get your pilots licence.


  • #3
    nesf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,644 ✭✭✭✭nesf


    daveg wrote:
    Your not worried about houses and stuff now but you will be in 4 years time when your where I am now at 32 (actually I'm now 33 since Sunday).

    Pretty much spot on. Think ahead always. :)


  • #4
    Jumpy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,606 ✭✭✭Jumpy


    I know that name.....

    Personally I say go to college. Gives you far more opportunities and if you like, you can fly at the end of it. Four years is short.


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