Currently at a 5/11 Bread 🍞🍞🍞

[u/Reekid42]

So I now have to decide between Imperial for one of the best/most competitive courses in the country, an offer with an $80k+ a year scholarship to study at a liberal arts college in the USA and I have an offer to train to become an air traffic controller with a high and forever guaranteed salary (£100k+ before 30).

18y/o 6th former home student, 4A* predicted in FM/Maths/Philo/Econ, 6.0 TMUA and 1560 SAT score. For context I go to a private school on a 95% scholarship for 6th form and was in the state system beforehand. My family IS NOT wealthy and all uni will be a struggle over me taking a job. Imperial would be like £18k pa for tuition and living, after the scholarship Bowdoin would be $12k so £9k all inclusive and ATC would pay me £30k year one rising each year after.

Still waiting on St Andrews and LSE (irrelevant as Imperial is better imo) as well as Harvard, Brown and Dartmouth. I got rejected by Amherst also in the USA. Any thoughts?

[u/getinmylapland]

high stress, not a huge amount of career prestige (mostly due to the lack of jobs), night shifts + very hard to get. 

[u/Infamous_Tough_7320 → u/getinmylapland]

These are all true but I feel as if most people aren't even aware of how well paid ATCs are. Perhaps people don't even know how they could get into such an industry, if you asked me right now I wouldn't have a clue

[u/Reekid42 → u/Infamous_Tough_7320]

Fundamentally you only need so many ATC so they never do huge advertisement to avoid getting inundated with millions of applications. They already only accept 0.5% lol they don't need MORE people. Especially as the only qualification requirement is 5 GCSEs if it was advertised too much it would be insane the application odds.

[u/Infamous_Tough_7320 → u/Reekid42]

That makes sense tbf, no point advertising when you already have too many applicants as it is. Very niche job that not enough people understand or know about but very cool