EGGD
3rd Sep 2002, 23:38
Hi guys,
I couldn't decide where this is for the questions or Wannabees forums, but as these are questions I thought they'd be appropriate here. Now, after a long discussion with my careers adviser, we decided that the best way to find if a career is what I want to do or not is by either doing work experience (which I know, as fun as it'd be, is not possible with pilots), or asking questions. I would be grateful if some pilots could answer these simple questions:
1)Did you do well at school? I mean, there are quite alot of subcategories that you could fall into. But basically were your O-levels (or GCSE's, and then A-levels..) generally: All A*'s, all A's, all B's, all C's, or didn't go to school...
2)Are you confident as a person, I mean, self confidence with talking to people, (girls), in what you do?
3)Did you, or do you ever feel overwhelmed by the amount of work you needed to do whilst at school, training to be a pilot, or working as a pilot?
4)Did you ever feel you couldn't cope with a crisis in the cockpit?
5)When did you first want to be a pilot, and what were your motives?
6)Did you find that, knowledge helped you through your pilot training course, more than your personality, or was it more a case of being in the right mental state of mind (ie. you could do everything in the training course even if you were dumb as a post, but had the confidence/personality to do that sort of thing).
7)Do you, or did you ever get apprehensive about doing anything to do with your job? Were you worried about your first flight, or your first solo, or your aptitude test?
8)Do you ever get overwhelmed by the hours you have to work or the amount of paperwork you have to do?
9)Do you like rollercoasters, and other exciting activities (such as bungee jumping or skydiving).
10)Do you ever regret being a pilot, or ever change your mind half way through training without having an option to go back?
I think.. that I have asked everything that I need to ask. Its a little late and my brains be working all day so I HOPE these questions make sense and I hope that you will have enough time and will be able to answer these questions.
Thankyou!
Daniel :)
I couldn't decide where this is for the questions or Wannabees forums, but as these are questions I thought they'd be appropriate here. Now, after a long discussion with my careers adviser, we decided that the best way to find if a career is what I want to do or not is by either doing work experience (which I know, as fun as it'd be, is not possible with pilots), or asking questions. I would be grateful if some pilots could answer these simple questions:
1)Did you do well at school? I mean, there are quite alot of subcategories that you could fall into. But basically were your O-levels (or GCSE's, and then A-levels..) generally: All A*'s, all A's, all B's, all C's, or didn't go to school...
2)Are you confident as a person, I mean, self confidence with talking to people, (girls), in what you do?
3)Did you, or do you ever feel overwhelmed by the amount of work you needed to do whilst at school, training to be a pilot, or working as a pilot?
4)Did you ever feel you couldn't cope with a crisis in the cockpit?
5)When did you first want to be a pilot, and what were your motives?
6)Did you find that, knowledge helped you through your pilot training course, more than your personality, or was it more a case of being in the right mental state of mind (ie. you could do everything in the training course even if you were dumb as a post, but had the confidence/personality to do that sort of thing).
7)Do you, or did you ever get apprehensive about doing anything to do with your job? Were you worried about your first flight, or your first solo, or your aptitude test?
8)Do you ever get overwhelmed by the hours you have to work or the amount of paperwork you have to do?
9)Do you like rollercoasters, and other exciting activities (such as bungee jumping or skydiving).
10)Do you ever regret being a pilot, or ever change your mind half way through training without having an option to go back?
I think.. that I have asked everything that I need to ask. Its a little late and my brains be working all day so I HOPE these questions make sense and I hope that you will have enough time and will be able to answer these questions.
Thankyou!
Daniel :)