4.8 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Waiting for a response to your application can be stressful and harrowing, and we get it. So today, Nik shares valuable tips to keep yourself inspired and move toward your desire to be part of commercial aviation.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN FROM THIS EPISODE
Avenues to reach and network with the right people for your aviation career
How to make yourself well-rounded for your application
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| 0:00.0 | It's okay to be a human. It's okay to be imperfect. And I don't want you to have anxiety about it. |
| 0:06.0 | I want you to know that it's okay. Get out, get some exercise, get your app looking better, get your network more connected. |
| 0:13.0 | And it'll work out. |
| 0:14.0 | Most pilots don't understand what career opportunities are available in the world of aviation. |
| 0:20.0 | They're making career decisions based on advice from friends or posts on internet forums, |
| 0:26.2 | meaning they are taking huge risks with their livelihood without having all the details. |
| 0:31.4 | This podcast was created to help you understand the aviation industry so you can find your dream job. Let's get ready for pushback. |
| 0:40.5 | Here's your host and my dad, Nick Fialca. What's up, pilot? It's Nick. How's it going? Thanks for swinging by. |
| 0:48.8 | What a cool opportunity is to talk to you. So today is a rainy day. I live in Northern California. It started a |
| 0:56.7 | couple hours ago, but my family and I, we got out. We got some really great hiking in and saw |
| 1:01.3 | some great views of the Pacific Ocean and all this awesomeness. But now it's raining. It's a |
| 1:05.6 | Saturday. The kids are in the other room. We gave them some hot chocolate and they're watching some show and |
| 1:12.5 | just chilling out before dinner. And I wanted to come and record a solo episode. So if you can |
| 1:18.0 | hear raindrops on the roof, much apologies. If you hear one of my five kids screaming like, |
| 1:23.4 | yeah, you get what you pay for. I don't pretend to be the most perfectly recorded podcast, |
| 1:28.8 | but we'll go through it. Today, we're talking about your nervous energy. I was talking to |
| 1:37.2 | Tron Williams on the phone a few minutes ago, and we got on this conversation about the fact that |
| 1:42.6 | we both get these phone calls quite often of people |
| 1:45.5 | that are looking to transition oftentimes it's military people looking to get out of the military |
| 1:51.2 | or it's somebody that's been a professional pilot for a long time maybe they're a contract pilot |
| 1:57.0 | they're flying like a citation X or something like that for a super high net worth individual. |
| 2:02.8 | And they got lots and lots of experience and lots of hours, but they want to go to the airlines. |
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