ORIGINAL: xoon
i just had an interesting talk w/ my friend... just when i was into 3D... this talk is changing what i think about my future.
i'm only 15, and next year i'm goin to be a sophomore in high school. i got started last summer and now i can do almost all 3D trick in the book. then my friend was talking about what i want to be and where i'm going to go. i want to be an Aeronautical Engineer, but she said that w/ all the money i've spent on Airplanes, and all the time on airplanes... where am i going to go after high school? will this just be a hobby for my next three year then Pooff...it's gone? how am i going go to college? how am i going to live? money? ( for planes and college)
had anyone here got to quit the hobby b/c of school? ( college particularly) how do you deal w/ this? i bet there are a lot of people out there who experienced this... how do you fix the probem?
Just my thought that popped out of my head...
I quit RC about time I graduated from HS until a couple years after I got out of college. To be honest, between studying and college life I just had no time. When you factor in that I seemed to be constantly broke, it was a situation with only 1 outcome.
My dorm was too small for a plane or any of my trucks (really too small for me and someone else alone) and seemed to have a revolving door for inebriated people... it would have eventually been stepped on or something.
Whoever you were in high school is irrelevant; you get a new start here. Just the time alone to fly and maintain would have taken time away from this solicization oppurtunity that only comes along once in a lifetime.
I'm not saying that you have to quit, but it will sure be around in a year or so after school when you can REALLY afford it. Think of your school as an investment not only in life, but in RC as well, and you WILL be paid back when you return life in 4 to 6.
Everyone's life and situation are different, just don't miss out on things that can only happen while you're in school to take part in something that will be around for the rest of your life.