Yeah, good luck with that. As a primary IP, I flew with enough of engineer types and realized it doesn't much matter what your major is, it is no inidicator of success. Now API, don't know but c'mon, it's API.
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Yeah, good luck with that. As a primary IP, I flew with enough of engineer types and realized it doesn't much matter what your major is, it is no inidicator of success. Now API, don't know but c'mon, it's API.
I prefer to see the negative in people and assume the worst. :icon_wink
So true. That way you'll never be disappointed, but pleasantly suprised.
I thought the only indicator of success was whether you had had a paper route at some time in your life. (And not got fired from it...)
I can't remember where I heard this, but it sounded too strange not to be true.
Well ... you probably heard it from the same guy who told me, I guess ... and even though I HATED THOSE RAINY, COLD, ZERO-DARK-THIRTY deliveries of @ 100 lbs of processed wood off of the back of my bike to unappreciative, whiny, cheapskate customers that occasionally had barking/biting dogs that I sprayed w/ ammonia from my anti-dog squirt gun ... it was a great 'character builder' ... and it built up your legs, too ...
Well ... you probably heard it from the same guy who told me, I guess ... and even though I HATED THOSE RAINY, COLD, ZERO-DARK-THIRTY deliveries of @ 100 lbs of processed wood off of the back of my bike to unappreciative, whiny, cheapskate customers that occasionally had barking/biting dogs that I sprayed w/ ammonia from my anti-dog squirt gun ... it was a great 'character builder' ... and it built up your legs, too ...
4 AM, in some not-so-nice areas of town. Got really good with throwing papers, though, and riding my bike with no hands, while I took papers out of my baskets, folded them, and put them in the sack. (The route was about 3/4 of a mile from my house, so that cut down on the number of trips back to the house.) Of course, once while doing that I wasn't paying attention, and ran into the of a parked car. That got my attention real quick. (And bent the frame of my bike!)
Yea I had a paper-route too. Here it is.
^--- is correct.
Im not terribly worried about API. Honestly OCS is more of a hurdle that I need to get over than API.
I don't think you really know what you're talking about yet...OCS and API are different entities. They will both pose different challenges that no matter what your degree is in, can challenge you.
Maybe you'll have a leg up in aero, but nav, frr, wx, swimming might pose unforseen problems. Agreed, ocs is the closest alligator to your canoe, but to say it is or won't be tougher than API..without having been, is a bit naiive.
I'm going to agree with both of you. After going through OCS and having to juggle studying and stress, it was nice to get into the college final type studying of API, where all I had to worry about was studying and not everything else.
And with you OU, likewise I saw people who could do OCS flawlessly but couldn't adapt to API.
Fairly true, its probably because im more confident in my academic ability than dealing with the pain a DI can put me under. Eh well, doesnt really matter. Im going to go to both eventually.
side note: this summer is taking too long and I am trolling around on forums too much... 4 more months of boredom to go ಠ_ಠ
Oh, in that case, my reasoning still stands. An engineering degree is not an indicator of getting a successful job on the outside as well....based only from what I've seen from friends trying to get jobs in the real world. I have no actual data to back up my opinion
Maybe. I had a paper route in which I didn't get fired but my success in the Navy and life in general has been a bit half-ass at best :icon_tong I must have had it at the wrong time lol
Well, if having a paper route actually helped my career, I shudder to think what it would have been like had I not had the paper route.
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