What do you think of the major of aircraft maintenance? My brother wants to apply for this major.

First of all, after learning aircraft maintenance, it is likely to be the maintenance of airlines. I'm a maintenance worker. I used to check on the route, but now it's not on the first line. Let's talk about your three negatives: prospect, development and value.

Prospect: The maintenance profession is not optimistic in China. Repairing airplanes sounds a bit cool, but it's not fundamentally different from repairing cars and boats. In China, this kind of work is a poorly paid occupation (the labor paid+the responsibility assumed is far lower than the salary). If you decide to do maintenance, you will learn a lot about maintenance license, model license, release license and so on. These licenses will be useless if you change careers in the future. To put it bluntly, there are not many options for changing jobs in the future, unless you decide to give up your license and learn something else.

Development: At present, the development of locomotive maintenance means that with the improvement of your experience (working hours) and ability (corresponding license), if you are still in the front line, you can become a squadron leader, team leader, troubleshooting engineer and so on. The salary will increase accordingly, but the responsibility will be heavier. If you choose to leave the front line, you can go to places such as engineering, quality and transportation management, followed by engineers and senior engineers. After all, you have very rich first-line experience and ability, and you can do well in these departments. You don't have to work the night shift if you leave the front line. However, the responsibility is still very heavy.

Worth it: I have been working until now and found that it is really worthless. Maintenance is really bitter+tired. The salary is also low. You said that you work in an airline, and basically you have a night shift for three or four days, and there are never holidays (three times the salary for working on legal holidays). Your wife and children are on holiday, and you can't even accompany them. At present, the loss of personnel in the maintenance industry is serious, and the workload of night shift is increasing. Think about how long you can resist all-night manual labor, once every four days. In addition, there is the question of responsibility. Once you sign the release, this plane is your consent to release. If something goes wrong, you are the first person to find you. At present, the status of maintenance in airlines is extremely low. Finally, if there is a problem with the plane, the leader will ask if it is a boiler for maintenance. I am engaged in engineering now. I sent EO to be responsible for the flight control and power transformation of the whole fleet. Sleep at home at night and wake up as soon as the phone rings. I'm afraid there's something wrong with the plane, and I'm more afraid it's because of me. Looking at the monthly salary is really not worth it.

Let your brother think about it. The locomotive industry will be hungry and have food, but you can't make money. Don't do this if your brother is capable. Anyway, I won't let him do this after my child. Meaningless.