Career Flight Plan “To DO List”

 

 

Setting a specific career goal for your future is the first important step in developing your personal career flight plan. Your goal will serve as the guiding beacon that directs your planning and decision making. This career goal should be both specific and attainable. A realistic goal for a young man or woman would be “I would like to be an Astronaut for NASA.” It would be a little silly for that same person to choose the goal of “I would like to be the starting center for the Los Angels Lakers” if he or she will grow to a height of only 5’7”.

 

If you set a goal that is specific and attainable you will be able to customize your decisions to get the most out of every opportunity while avoiding wasting any of your precious time, energy and money. There are many examples of these plans within this website.

 

The more research and detail you put into your career flight plan the better.

 

Let’s say that you want to be an Airline Pilot. If you decide that you want to pursue the civilian flight training path, you will eventually need to secure a fair amount of financing for flight school. There are a multitude of college loans, scholarships and programs available to you that will fit into your plan very nicely. Take a look at our Scholarship section for hundreds of scholarships that are available to you.

Yes…that’s millions of dollars of FREE money available to you. Take a couple of hours and review them and see which ones you qualify for.

Additionally, most colleges with flight schools offer scholarships too. Look at our list of flight schools. If you browse their university home pages, you will be able to get the contact information of their respective flight departments. They want to talk to you! Call them and ask them about their training program and financial aid. They will be thrilled to send you all the information you need to make a great decision and give you quite a bit of free money to help you finance your education.

 

The bottom line is there is no substitute for hard work. I think you would agree with us that if you spent 5-10 hours researching and preparing your career flight plan, you could be handsomely rewarded with thousands of dollars of free school financing!

 

Here is a sample to do list:

 

1. Research career opportunities
2. Find a couple of careers that you want to research
3. Pick a your favorite career and set that as your goal
4. Develop your personal career flight plan and write it down on paper.
5. Answer these questions:
1. What is the required education/training needed and what schools provide this training?
2. What can I do to gain experience (activities, mentor programs, etc.) 
3. What do I need to do to get accepted into the schools that look good to me?
4. How do I apply for as many scholarships and financial aid programs as possible?
6. Use as many quality resources (like ProFlight  Futures) as possible to “fine tune” your plan.
7. Research, research and more research…
8. Get to work and do the best you can. You can and will do it if you work as hard as you can.