Has anyone pivoted to ATC with an advanced degree and established career?
Long story short, I have a masters degree but I’ve grown increasingly dissatisfied with my career field and the options within it after about 5 years in the field.
I’ve always been very interested in aviation (this is not my current field), including air traffic control, and took the ATSA recently since I will age out next year and I figured this could be my last chance. Not really sure why I waited so long, but whatever. I scored BQ and have a TOL as of today, so I’m really interested in trying to move forward with this.
I know that a masters degree is pretty much irrelevant to ATC, just to be clear.
I’m wondering if there is anyone else on here who got an advanced degree and then switched careers into ATC. What has your experience been like? Was it worth abandoning your past education and established career in another field? Any deep regrets?