Can any of you who are pilots or know someone who is help me talk my son out of becoming a pilot. He is 18 going into his senior year and is looking at North Dakota University aviation school or Wyomings Mechanical Engineering School. He has outstanding grades and a good SAT score and not worried about him academically in either field.
He is leaning heavily towards aviation because of the pay difference. His life revolves around hunting and the outdoors and he believes being a pilot and the income they earn will help him achieve his hunting goals.
I have talked to him many times about life in general, family, friends and being a man. But this decision will be his. I am just a little more worried about diving into the cost of pilot school and then changing his mind. I want him to have his eyes open with whatever he decides.
So pilots out there if there is anything he needs to know or reasons he should avoid the career. Let me know.
He knows he will be roughly 150,000-200,000 in debt if he chooses being a pilot. But he also believes that by his early 30s he will be making 250,000-300,000.
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