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Air Traffic Control?

  • 25-02-2008 7:59pm
    #1
    conormurphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 228 ✭✭


    So, I'm 14, doing my Junior Cert mocks at the moment (which aren't going too bad i must say, night before revision every night has done the job) and I'm really confused about my career path. Since I was a child, I'd wanted to be a pilot but my mother told me that 1) we can't afford it, 2) even if we could, she wouldn't guarantee it... So then people started shootin at me with Journalism, Accountacy and that kind of stuff because I generally get good grades, my Christmas test average was 86% i that is anything to judge by. But anyway, I was looking around and I saw that the air traffic control trainees have to be under 30 (which is pretty cool) and also that they only have to be 19 (meaning I'll have a reasonable excuse to take a gap year after the leaving) so I was thinking that I'll try and get into that kind of career. €55,000 starting basic pay. Hopefully they'll be accepting at the time I'm 19.

    I was wondering, is there anyone on here that has any further information or that done the course at Shannon themselves and if so, what was it like?

    Thanks to any repliers.


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  • #2
    cronos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,719 ✭✭✭cronos


    conormurphy wrote: »
    So, I'm 14, doing my Junior Cert mocks at the moment (which aren't going too bad i must say, night before revision every night has done the job) and I'm really confused about my career path. Since I was a child, I'd wanted to be a pilot but my mother told me that 1) we can't afford it, 2) even if we could, she wouldn't guarantee it... So then people started shootin at me with Journalism, Accountacy and that kind of stuff because I generally get good grades, my Christmas test average was 86% i that is anything to judge by. But anyway, I was looking around and I saw that the air traffic control trainees have to be under 30 (which is pretty cool) and also that they only have to be 19 (meaning I'll have a reasonable excuse to take a gap year after the leaving) so I was thinking that I'll try and get into that kind of career. €55,000 starting basic pay. Hopefully they'll be accepting at the time I'm 19.

    I was wondering, is there anyone on here that has any further information or that done the course at Shannon themselves and if so, what was it like?

    Thanks to any repliers.

    I would look into how many jobs their are in it. Very stressful too. Good money though. Give this a read.
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055128278


  • #3
    crookesa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 142 ✭✭crookesa


    conormurphy wrote: »
    Hopefully they'll be accepting at the time I'm 19.

    I was wondering, is there anyone on here that has any further information or that done the course at Shannon themselves and if so, what was it like?

    Thanks to any repliers.

    Check this out, might be an idea if the IAA aren't hiring when your time comes....
    http://www.eurocontrol.int/muac/public/standard_page/NoticeOfCompetition.html


  • #4
    smiler26
    Closed Accounts Posts: 169 ✭✭smiler26


    A word of advice, don't base your decision on your grades.

    I am 27 now and only in the last 12 months am I 100% about my career path. (FYI - I got over 570 points in my LC and was forced into doing Medicine, but I quit after 4 months cos I HATED it).

    Good luck, but don't put too much pressure on yourself to decide right away!


  • #5
    conormurphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 228 ✭✭conormurphy


    Thanks for the replies guys but actually I just found out that there should be about 11,800 jobs in America in the next ten years as the generation of air traffic controllers retire...

    Something to look forward to anyway, I'd love a job to do with aircraft but I'm not the engineering type you see so I thought id go into this


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