It's important for you to wrap your head around the fact that as you're moving down this path,

you need to be really, really good at your job.

You need to study and stay on top of it.

Most pilots don't understand what career opportunities are available in the world of aviation.

They're making career decisions based on advice from

friends or posts on internet forums, meaning they are taking huge risks with their livelihood

without having all the details. This podcast was created to help you understand the aviation industry

so you can find your dream job. Let's get ready for pushback.

Here's your host and my dad, Nick Fialca. All right, pilot, welcome, welcome, welcome. Another solo episode.

And here I am. I'm Nick Fialca. And there you are. You are listening. You are moving yourself forward. You are learning how to fly. And you are continuing to fly after you leave this podcast.

I'm so glad you spend time with me and this podcast making yourself better. It makes me better. I tell you what, I really enjoy doing these solo

episodes because it makes me dive deep. It makes me challenge myself. It makes me really get

creative. And it's really, really hard. It is really hard. And I'm thankful for that. I'm thankful

that it's hard. And this career that we have is hard. You have chosen one of the most difficult

careers in the world. Doctors have to go to school for almost a decade to become a doctor.

Lawyers have to go to school for like a decade to become a doctor. Lawyers have to go to school

for like four, six, eight extra years to be a lawyer. Pilots go to flight school for a few years

and then they're pushed out of the nest and they're expected to be amazing. They are put in

charge of millions of dollars worth of equipment, hundreds and hundreds of lives, thousands and thousands of families, millions of friends.

Everybody you interact with has a stake in your career and a stake in how good you are at your job.

And that can be scary if you sit and think about it.

But it's challenging and it's good. And you can do hard things. As you are doing this and you are working through your aviation career, you are flying bigger and faster and more swanky things, but you also have a lot more trust invested in you, not just by

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