Hello from Virginia!

[ItsOKImAPilot]

Gday mate.

Can you tell me a little bit about the Peaks of Otter? Have you ever been there and if so, whats it like?

Cheers mate.

McB

Unfortunately I've never been. Are you centering your trip around Lynchburg? Just looking to good trails for biking or hiking?

 

[ItsOKImAPilot]

my best friend went to UVA so I'm used to that whole issue haha yeah that's pretty cool your employer is paying for you to work on your Master's in Ohio (assuming they're paying for it since they told you were to go). What sort of program are you in if you don't mind me asking?

Yeah, they require you to receive a master's before you can be promoted beyond a certain point. Not that it's bad but you have a lot of people wasting time on nonsensical degrees unless they get approved to do something in-residence somewhere. They have a training program that had a void in Ohio for a semester so I took it. Not a bad place but I hear it can get pretty cold. Luckily I'll be gone by December.

I am studying applied mathematics with a concentration on analysis. How that applies to my job I don't know, but we'll see where it takes me when I retire.

 

[McBain]

Unfortunately I've never been. Are you centering your trip around Lynchburg? Just looking to good trails for biking or hiking?

Bugger. I would love to tell you why, but I really, really can't publicly. Let's just say that I "conscientiously object" to that question... As a new poster you won't know me, or where I'm from, but the longer you stay the more my obscure clues might make sense.

Anyway! Enjoy the Forum and contribute whenever you can!

Mcb

 

[SerenityNigh]

Yeah, they require you to receive a master's before you can be promoted beyond a certain point. Not that it's bad but you have a lot of people wasting time on nonsensical degrees unless they get approved to do something in-residence somewhere. They have a training program that had a void in Ohio for a semester so I took it. Not a bad place but I hear it can get pretty cold. Luckily I'll be gone by December.

I am studying applied mathematics with a concentration on analysis. How that applies to my job I don't know, but we'll see where it takes me when I retire.

My wife had a friend force to get a Master's in Structural Engineering before the Navy trained her to fly helos. Now I think she's a landscape architect or something. Go figure.

 

[ItsOKImAPilot]

My wife had a friend force to get a Master's in Structural Engineering before the Navy trained her to fly helos. Now I think she's a landscape architect or something. Go figure.

That's odd but the Navy is an entirely new ballgame to me. Every branch makes you pursue a master's as an officer though. Our thing is to say that we are so well rounded we're pointless.

The way the AF works is you get a bachelors and complete ROTC or OTS by the time you're 30 for any of the rated (aviation) careers. You can also do the Academy and earn your b***h badge. After you commission through any source you go to pilot training (a screening process before actual pilot training for those without a license). Then after about 1.5 years you get your assignment and all is well and good before some shoe clerk tells you to complete a master's degree otherwise you will not get promoted anymore.

I was lucky enough to get an in-residence opportunity which means I dodge nonsense for about 1.5 years. I will be done in May though and at that time I go back to my duties, no better off than if I just had a bachelor's I am sure.

 

[SerenityNigh]

That's odd but the Navy is an entirely new ballgame to me. Every branch makes you pursue a master's as an officer though. Our thing is to say that we are so well rounded we're pointless.

The way the AF works is you get a bachelors and complete ROTC or OTS by the time you're 30 for any of the rated (aviation) careers. You can also do the Academy and earn your b***h badge. After you commission through any source you go to pilot training (a screening process before actual pilot training for those without a license). Then after about 1.5 years you get your assignment and all is well and good before some shoe clerk tells you to complete a master's degree otherwise you will not get promoted anymore.

I was lucky enough to get an in-residence opportunity which means I dodge nonsense for about 1.5 years. I will be done in May though and at that time I go back to my duties, no better off than if I just had a bachelor's I am sure.

I guess that's why all the butterbars I knew were enrolled at Embry Riddle online

 

[ItsOKImAPilot]

I guess that's why all the butterbars I knew were enrolled at Embry Riddle online

Haha, probably. Most people just get an MBA online. Total waste of their free time and money. It's senseless in most cases.