I’ve been accepted to a few colleges for aerospace engineering. After pondering about college for several months I have come to realize that I don’t want to be an engineer.
As a child growing up airplanes & jets were what interested me not the construction or building of those airplanes & jets. With that said the whole major/degree program offered at most schools
That deals with things that fly has “engineering” in it’s name. Would it be worth my time going through all of that intense math to be something that I don’t want to be? Airplanes and other flying machines of that matter are what interest me but I don’t what to build them…
http://www.erau.edu/degrees/ is a list of aviation-related college majors.
ERAU is a specialty school for aviation-related subjects, but some of these majors or similar ones may be available at other schools as well, so you need not limit yourself to ERAU if you want to study an aviation-related subject.
You do know that engineers don’t build the planes, right? They design and analyze them.
If you love the aviation industry, as I do, consider the corporate/operational side of an airline. I worked in System Control at a major airline where there were many unique positions such as Crew Coordinator, Aircraft Planner, Dispatcher and others such as Pricing Analyst, Revenue Analyst, etc.
I’ll consider those but the colleges I’ve been accepted to only offer the “engineering” phenomena degree program. So just take the aerospace engineering option and transfer out after my freshmen year?
Yes I know that but I’m not into that stuff on “how it’s made/designed.” when I was eight years old I didn’t tell people that I wanted to design a rocket or an airplane when I grow up.
What about the airplane interests you?