I'm going to give you six steps to help you master that art of failing successfully.

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. Hey, Pilot, it's Nick. It's a solo show.

What's up? I was checking my email, thinking about who's cool, all my spam, scrolling through all my

spam. I love getting my spam. And I got a couple emails about people not living up to the standard

that they thought they should. It was really interesting. I started thinking about it. And then my son

interrupted and my daughter came downstairs. We were chit-chatting and they threw this little

kind of purple book on the table,

and it was a Harry Potter book. And did you know that when J.K. Rowling, like, wrote Harry Potter,

it was rejected by a lot of publishers. And she basically, from my understanding, I could be wrong, but I didn't even look this up.

But she wrote the story for her kiddo and kind of created this entire world.

And nobody wanted it. You know, another person that really was terrible and failed was Steve Jobs.

He was ousted from Apple, right?

And then started that company next.

If you never saw that, it's crazy.

He got like booted from Apple.

And but then they struggled.

And once he was doing his thing outside of Apple, they actually brought him back in.

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