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> had achieved suburban middle class lives as air traffic controllers without having gone to college This sounds almost surreal in today's market. Nowadays:
by throwawayzRUU6f 6y ago
> had achieved suburban middle class lives as air traffic controllers without having gone to college
This sounds almost surreal in today's market.
Nowadays:
> Candidates typically need an associate’s or a bachelor’s degree from the Air Traffic Collegiate Training Initiative program. Other applicants must have 3 years of progressively responsible work experience, have completed 4 years of college, or have a combination of both
- alexjplant 6y agoNot sure if you're speaking generally or only with regard to ATCs, but it's completely possible to make a good living doing IT work without having a college degree. If you're able to make the jump to software development it can become even more lucrative. The salary progression is more linear than a Stanford grad clearing $200k annually at Google straight out of college but making six figures in your 20s without a degree as a network/cloud engineer or sysadmin is pretty doable.