[Frank_Rizzo]

In college I did 3 years of Mechanical Engineering and just fell out of love with it as I fell in love with flying so I can appreciate your standing. Go out and at least get your Private license. This might be difficult just out of school but it you can see how bad you really want this as recreation or a career. As far as having your ME and contemplating military service, I can't think of a better bang up job resume than that. As you might know A/P mechanics usually do quite well, sometimes better than us pilots and the military does train great mechanics. That income level later in your career would certainly allow for some flying and possibly aircraft ownership. Nonetheless if you do become commercially licensed an ME is great to fall back on when the day comes. Hope this helps, I believe I have seen a few military experienced mechanics and aviators on JC so they could perhaps give more here.