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TLDR: I’m planning on getting a BS. UX Design from WGU in order to get a MS. HCI from RTI.

I am currently a mid-weight UX Designer (3 yoe in corporate America) and I was lucky enough to land my UX role after completing a 3 month bootcamp at General Assembly and 9 months of freelancing.

I am wanting to level up in the UX field and equip myself better for future roles, and I know a good “feather in the cap” to add would be through getting a Masters in HCI.

I currently don’t have a college degree, and I am considering getting a BS. UX Design degree online from WGU as it’s a competency-based program, and I could get through it relatively quickly considering I have experience in the field already. I believe the best plan is to transfer credits for the basic courses from Study.com or Sophia, and then grind out the more dedicated UX courses on WGU to complete the Bachelors. Afterwards, I’d plan on getting an online MS in HCI from Rochester Institute of Technology.

Has anyone gone through this program at WGU to get set up for a Masters in HCI? If so, was it worth it? I’d love to hear your story!

TLDR; Did any of you AMTs on here go to A&P school while working full-time? Or has anyone here made a pretty significant career pivot into Aircraft Maintenance? If so, how did it go for you?

I'm currently thinking of making a career pivot into Aircraft Maintenance (currently, I work in corporate America sitting at a desk all day as a UX Designer).

I have a good friend who's an AMT at UPS, and every time I talk with him about his job I just get so interested in it and can't stop thinking about it and how fun it sounds. I'm getting pretty bored of the corporate life, and I truly believe that I would love being an AMT and getting to work with my hands on airplanes for a living. It seems like such a challenging, rewarding, exciting job that presents new problems to solve each day.

As far as starting A&P school, the closest school for me is PIA (Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics), but my current problem is that the class hours (7:30a-2p, M-Th) conflict with my current job (9a-5p, M-F) — So as of now my only option (as far as I know) is to leave my current job and get some part-time jobs outside of class hours and on the weekends. I'm going to meet with my AMT buddy and learn more about his journey of becoming an AMT, so perhaps he has some suggestions for me but I wanted to post this here as well!

All that to say, did any of you AMTs on here go to A&P school while working full-time? Or has anyone here made a pretty significant career pivot into Aircraft Maintenance? If so, how did it go for you?