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Network, what is up?
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It's Adam.
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I'm back again.
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Decided to change things up on the podcast and
do something differently.
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Every summer has always been a challenge to get
guests and record with kids' schedules, it
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being busy, wanting to get outside, especially
for those of us in the Northern Tiers where the
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weather is finally good and doing stuff like
vacation and playing golf or just getting out,
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being in nature, the stuff that we try to enjoy
on our off time when we're not flying the line.
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I've decided that we're gonna try to mix it up,
kinda restart, rehack, go with the kids school
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year, if you will, as my kids start school here
shortly and do more of a seasoned approach, or
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have seasons.
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And if I have some leftover pods or stuff that
needs to be re reaired in the summer, we'll do
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that.
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But for now, I think this might be better for,
well, for content production actually getting
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material out there.
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But also for the listener, give you guys some
downtime, give you guys a break during the
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summer.
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So you can go out, fly the line, make a little
extra money, or do the kids thing, or enjoy
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your beautiful weather and go out and see the
world and earn some of that free time that you
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you have.
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And go listen to some of the those other great
pods that I know I've suggested before.
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And also just the people in the aviation space,
a lot of friends of TPN who produce great
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material.
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You can go out there and check those out too.
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The upcoming season, we are definitely going to
be changing and and going a different route.
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Not only have I found some pretty cool guests
that we're gonna have on that have unique pilot
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stories or stories about their journeys in
aviation careers, whatnot, but also we've
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started to really uncover a lot of unique and
different opportunities that are out there for
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low time, mid time, high time pilots as well.
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People who aren't going the standard one twenty
one route, even though we're gonna try to get
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some of those folks on from that one twenty one
world because of our relationships that we've
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made through TPN and TPNx TPNx especially, but
also going to places like OBAP or EAA or a lot
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of our other affinity groups that we're friends
with that we invite to our conference.
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And then we go out to go to their conferences
and start meeting some different airlines and
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carriers, operators, also vendors who we find
to be fascinating and who have a different
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perspective on the aviation industry than we
do.
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So think of it as perspective shifts from just
me or whoever the guest of the week is to
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getting some insights on not only career
options that are out there and opportunities
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that are available, but also what it's like to
be in that low time category and realize that
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if you are there, that a lot of you are going
through the same thing.
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And that there are options available for you.
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Sometimes you have to look.
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Sometimes you gotta earn your spurs and and go
the route that maybe doesn't pay the best or
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isn't the optimal job opportunity for you.
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But realizing that with what we're doing at the
Pilot Network and creating TPN talent, which
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you've haven't checked it out yet, to
tpntalent.com.
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Think of it think of it as a job facilitator.
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It's gonna have a traditional job board, but
there's some search functionality for the
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operators that we're trying to onboard, and
we're bringing out a whole host of new features
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and updates as we progress.
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It's gonna be the the core the core basic
function of TPN talent of posting your resume,
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getting searched by different carriers or
different operators is always gonna be free for
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the pilot.
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We're gonna add some features that may require
a payment, but that will never be mandatory to
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be part of TPN talent and try to job hunt or
let people hunt for you, is really what we're
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trying
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to get after here.
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But I wanna get back to so when I bring up
talent and when I've had some
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of these other opportunities talking to some
new people in the industry who I've not met
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before, not necessarily new to the industry but
folks that TPN has not had interaction with.
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I have realized that a lot of the recruiting
departments out there are truly embracing the
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idea of the heart of a teacher.
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They want what's best for you because if what's
best for you is their company, you're gonna be
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there a lot longer and it reduces their churn.
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Vice versa, if what's best for you is not
joining their outfit or operation and going
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somewhere else is, that creates less churn and
is better for the company and for you.
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And that is what they're really trying to get
after.
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I had a lot
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of conversations about that at OBAP when I
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was down there.
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And we're gonna try to get some of those
individuals to come on the show and talk about
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that.
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We've got some tentative dates and time set up,
so look forward to that as we progress through
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September and beyond.
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So that's really exciting to have that.
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Hopefully, some new TPNx recruiting attendees
and some different vendors that are gonna
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possibly infiltrate the space down in Dallas.
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Yeah, that's right.
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We're going back to Dallas.
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In fact, there should be about the time this
comes out, the official announcement that TPNx
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is in Dallas on May fifth and sixth at the Las
Colinas Convention Center in Irvin, which is
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where we had it last year.
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We're gonna try to really outdo ourselves this
year or in 2027.
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We had a really great time.
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I would love to set up a golf outing.
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If people are interested, please email us at
heyguys@thepilotnetwork.com or DM me on the
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socials or in TPN Pro.
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Wherever you can, let me know so I can start
setting that up early.
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And if we have enough interest, we'll put that
together.
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One of our golfing volunteers, Connor, will be,
probably taking lead on that, as we talked
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about it last year.
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He'd be really interested in setting something
up for TPN.
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Hopefully, can put it together and get a large
enough group where we can actually fundraise
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for a charity, either start off with our Jason
Jason DePue Memorial Scholarship Fund charity.
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But if we don't have that quite set yet, we'll
find something else that's aviation related and
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works works for a good cause.
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So that would be something that I'm really
interested in.
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I hope a lot of you are.
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And the fact that I can do that means that I am
now going back to work.
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For those of you who've kind of followed along,
I've been on disability with some shoulder and
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back issues.
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Those have kind of I finally, after a lot of
work, really cleared them up and feel a 100%
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put in my return to work stuff.
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Still working through some of those wickets.
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If you're ever going through that, prep
yourself.
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If there is a little bit of pain that you need
to kinda go through and organize yourself so
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you can get back quickly.
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I kinda was ready for it, so I talked hasn't
been as bad.
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I talked to one of my union reps prior to that
who'd been through something similar.
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So it was a little bit easier of a transition.
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But still it does require some back and forth.
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Even with as easy as my company has it set up,
there's still some back and forth because of
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just materials that they need that aren't
really necessarily on a
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checklist.
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And no matter what, just kind of mentally
prepare yourself if you're in that position.
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The
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last thing I wanna leave you with, because it's
kind of just an intro to the whole season of
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what TPN is gonna be all about on the TPN
podcast for 2026, 2027, is taking a step back.
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I I talk about opening your aperture at TPNx.
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And if you remember last year or when we kinda
we had a a very dedicated monthly themed theme
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months as it were.
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And we might bring that back in the past, but
it wasn't really tripping my trigger.
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It wasn't really doing anything for me.
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I think it's still good to have themes in your
life or goals like monthly goals to meet.
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I mean I don't necessarily live by that a 100%.
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It's kind of day to day especially when you
have younger kids and trying to just get
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through it.
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Wish you could wake up at 04:30 meditate and
then you're off to do your workout, and then
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you have your whole regimen of health stuff
that you do, and then you have work time and
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study time for going back for work stuff, or,
you've dedicated hobby time and it's blocked
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out.
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I don't get to live my life like that.
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I wish maybe I was more organized than could,
but I'm pretty happy with the way things are.
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So we're not gonna shift it too much.
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We're gonna we're slowly trying to drive to
that point.
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And now with two kids in full time school,
maybe, just maybe I'll get to do a little bit
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more of that, have a little bit more of a
directed laser focus on certain things.
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But one of the things is working off of that
aperture opening is realizing, like I talked
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about with this kind of organizational thing,
is realizing that just because there's somebody
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who did something one way doesn't necessarily
mean that that path is exactly right for you.
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That can be in aviation or otherwise.
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I have come to terms with the fact that there
were some things that I wanna do in my aviation
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crew that I missed out on.
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Because maybe I didn't work hard enough and
didn't get to be a fighter pilot.
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Or maybe chose one route of staying in the KC
one thirty five the whole time I was in the
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military.
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Moving on to a legacy carrier pretty early in
my career and only getting to kinda play around
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in some other spaces for a little bit to see
how they fit me.
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And I'm glad I got to do the things that I did
get to do.
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But now that I've gotten a lot more information
and knowledge to the great big world of
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aviation and see what else is out there.
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There's a lot of things that I wish I could
have done when I was younger, had more free
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time.
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Not necessarily the money, but the time to put
forth the effort to try to get those things
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done.
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And I'll give you an example.
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I am really interested in flying an l 39.
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I don't know why.
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I think maybe it's my tweet background when I
was flying tweets and pilot training.
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Maybe I miss going upside down.
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I might even miss pulling g's.
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I don't know.
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We'll see.
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If I ever do it again, we'll know if I've
missed pulling g's or not.
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But I saw them at Oshkosh when I took my family
up there.
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Really thoroughly enjoyed.
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I'm I'm always been more of a warbirds guy, not
a general aviation guy in the for the EAA,
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which is amazing.
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Love what the EAA does.
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I've been going there since I was a kid.
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It used to be the fly in, now Air Venture.
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But for some reason, the
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l 39 kinda jumps out at me.
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I I just like the idea of going to fly it.
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One thing I would have done when I was younger
and had the knowledge that I have now would be
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to find somebody who operates an L39 and
volunteer my time for them in any way.
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With no expectation of getting a ride or
learning anything about the L39 more than what
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I would have been taught by helping them out,
whether that's sweeping up their hanger or
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handling whatever miscellaneous crap they need
done in their little life of of performing if
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that's a side job or just owning an l 39.
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Whatever I could do to learn more about it just
by being around the people and the airplane
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itself would have been ample for me.
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But I didn't realize this until I was older
where and now I I don't have the free time like
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I used to to be able to volunteer myself to go
say, hey, I don't want anything in return.
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I just wanna be around the airplane and the
people who know about this stuff and see where
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it lands me and see what kind of road I get to
go down by doing that kind of thing.
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And why I tell you that is for those of you out
there who are looking for an in in certain
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aspects of aviation.
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When we talk about networking, this is one
really good way to do that.
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If that means you know you're out in FBO and
you're CFI ing and you know somebody across the
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way has a P51.
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Now maybe you're not gonna get a ride in a P51
or anything like that.
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But to go out and introduce yourself and say,
hey, if there's anything I can ever do or I'd
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like to stop by and volunteer or whatever.
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And it doesn't have to even be that forward or
or hosting maybe a all airport wide hangar
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burger burn or something for a charity of
somebody's interest sponsored by the FBL.
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However it works, anything.
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I mean, are kinda sound like outlandish ideas.
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But just giving of yourself and your time is so
valuable and people recognize that, that it
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might give you a foot in the door to do
something else or at least open your mind up to
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other ideas within aviation.
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You never know where that will lead you and it
will you'll never know who that will allow you
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to meet and be introduced to.
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And when you do that kind of thing, that can
propel the career a lot further, a lot faster
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than just kinda sitting back and going, well,
I'm I'm I'm building hours as fast as I can and
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I'm filling out my applications.
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There's more to the application than what's on
the paper.
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The resume should speak for itself.
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But if the resume only reads hours and nothing
else, doesn't say that you've gone above and
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beyond, that can be really almost damaging in a
way.
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I I had this conversation with several people
to include recruiters at
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OBAP specifically.
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And the one thing that
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we talked about was how chasing hours can be a
fool's errand.
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Because while you try to chase hours, chase
hours, chase hours.
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Now mind you, I'm gonna caveat this.
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There's a time and a place for that.
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But while you chase hours, you're missing out
on these other opportunities that could help
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build your career and your resume so
meaningfully that that could be the difference
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between getting a job a couple years earlier
than you otherwise could or meeting somebody
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who could help you get there.
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doing now especially if you don't enjoy that
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position that you're currently in or it's not
getting you to where you wanna be.
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So that's that's that opening that aperture and
trying on new things for size just to see how
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it fits.
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Now that doesn't mean to quit your job and go
out there and say, okay, I'm gonna try
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something crazy.
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and wanna do that, fantastic.
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Go for it.
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go
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out there and kind of put yourself forward.
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If you feel embarrassed or a little dorky in a
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That probably means you're doing it right.
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I remember the first podcast that we ever did,
I was I recorded it.
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I was super embarrassed to release it.
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I don't even know if it's still out there,
anybody can listen to it.
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Not to say that this one's much better at this
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it is, but back then it sure wasn't.
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And having that willingness to be embarrassed
or at least try something put me in
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a space that allowed me to get get into voice
acting and making a little bit of money off of
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actually talking to a microphone, which is
something I enjoy doing.
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If you don't have that skill set yet, this is
something to work on.
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Oh, by the way, this is really good for your
interview cycles that will come up in in the
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future.
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If you feel comfortable with being a little
embarrassed, if you feel comfortable with being
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uncomfortable with certain in certain aspects
and environments, that will go so far in your
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interview prep for especially for those of you
going into like those big part one twenty one
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legacy interviews or beyond that.
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So take it as by by broadening the scope at
which you are looking and doing things, you can
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achieve so much more than you think you can
just by putting yourself out there.
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Even if there's nothing comes of that directly,
you'll be surprised at what can come of it down
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the road.
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Anyways, that's my take for for today.
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I look forward to way more
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of this stuff going throughout the year.
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There'll be some solo episodes in here as well,
maybe more stuff like this.
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If you enjoy it, hit us up at
heyguys@thepilotnetwork.com.
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Let me know what you think.
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If you have a suggestion for the show or you
have a guest that you really wanna hear from,
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let me know.
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I'd love to try to go get them get them on the
show and get a different perspective of pilot's
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perspective of who they are, what they're all
about.
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Anyways, if again, if you have questions, hey,
guys.
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Thepilotnetwork.com.
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Make sure to check out everything TPN by going
to pilotnetwork.com, and you can branch off
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from all our socials there.
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With TPNx landing page, it'll be coming out
soon, so you can check updates.
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We're gonna have lots of releases on there when
we get different recruiters, vendors, people
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like that who show up and sign up for TPNx,
plus announcements.
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We're hoping for some really big and fun stuff,
different and hopefully better experience than
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we've ever had before.
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I don't know how we're gonna top last year, but
we're gonna we're gonna try our best.
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And as always, keep the shiny side up and the
greasy side down.
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Fly safe, everybody.
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Network, what is up?
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It's Adam.
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I'm back again.
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Decided to change things up on the podcast and
do something differently.
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Every summer has always been a challenge to get
guests and record with kids' schedules, it
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being busy, wanting to get outside, especially
for those of us in the Northern Tiers where the
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weather is finally good and doing stuff like
vacation and playing golf or just getting out,
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being in nature, the stuff that we try to enjoy
on our off time when we're not flying the line.
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I've decided that we're gonna try to mix it up,
kinda restart, rehack, go with the kids school
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year, if you will, as my kids start school here
shortly and do more of a seasoned approach, or
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have seasons.
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And if I have some leftover pods or stuff that
needs to be re reaired in the summer, we'll do
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that.
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But for now, I think this might be better for,
well, for content production actually getting
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material out there.
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But also for the listener, give you guys some
downtime, give you guys a break during the
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summer.
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So you can go out, fly the line, make a little
extra money, or do the kids thing, or enjoy
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your beautiful weather and go out and see the
world and earn some of that free time that you
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you have.
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And go listen to some of the those other great
pods that I know I've suggested before.
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And also just the people in the aviation space,
a lot of friends of TPN who produce great
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material.
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You can go out there and check those out too.
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The upcoming season, we are definitely going to
be changing and and going a different route.
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Not only have I found some pretty cool guests
that we're gonna have on that have unique pilot
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stories or stories about their journeys in
aviation careers, whatnot, but also we've
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started to really uncover a lot of unique and
different opportunities that are out there for
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low time, mid time, high time pilots as well.
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People who aren't going the standard one twenty
one route, even though we're gonna try to get
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some of those folks on from that one twenty one
world because of our relationships that we've
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made through TPN and TPNx TPNx especially, but
also going to places like OBAP or EAA or a lot
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of our other affinity groups that we're friends
with that we invite to our conference.
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And then we go out to go to their conferences
and start meeting some different airlines and
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carriers, operators, also vendors who we find
to be fascinating and who have a different
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perspective on the aviation industry than we
do.
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So think of it as perspective shifts from just
me or whoever the guest of the week is to
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getting some insights on not only career
options that are out there and opportunities
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that are available, but also what it's like to
be in that low time category and realize that
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if you are there, that a lot of you are going
through the same thing.
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And that there are options available for you.
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Sometimes you have to look.
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Sometimes you gotta earn your spurs and and go
the route that maybe doesn't pay the best or
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isn't the optimal job opportunity for you.
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But realizing that with what we're doing at the
Pilot Network and creating TPN talent, which
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you've haven't checked it out yet, to
tpntalent.com.
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Think of it think of it as a job facilitator.
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It's gonna have a traditional job board, but
there's some search functionality for the
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operators that we're trying to onboard, and
we're bringing out a whole host of new features
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and updates as we progress.
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It's gonna be the the core the core basic
function of TPN talent of posting your resume,
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getting searched by different carriers or
different operators is always gonna be free for
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the pilot.
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We're gonna add some features that may require
a payment, but that will never be mandatory to
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be part of TPN talent and try to job hunt or
let people hunt for you, is really what we're
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trying
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to get after here.
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But I wanna get back to so when I bring up
talent and when I've had some
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of these other opportunities talking to some
new people in the industry who I've not met
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before, not necessarily new to the industry but
folks that TPN has not had interaction with.
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I have realized that a lot of the recruiting
departments out there are truly embracing the
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idea of the heart of a teacher.
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They want what's best for you because if what's
best for you is their company, you're gonna be
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there a lot longer and it reduces their churn.
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Vice versa, if what's best for you is not
joining their outfit or operation and going
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somewhere else is, that creates less churn and
is better for the company and for you.
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I had a lot
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of conversations about that at OBAP when I
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was down there.
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And we're gonna try to get some of those
individuals to come on the show and talk about
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that.
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We've got some tentative dates and time set up,
so look forward to that as we progress through
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September and beyond.
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So that's really exciting to have that.
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Hopefully, some new TPNx recruiting attendees
and some different vendors that are gonna
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possibly infiltrate the space down in Dallas.
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We're going back to Dallas.
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In fact, there should be about the time this
comes out, the official announcement that TPNx
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is in Dallas on May fifth and sixth at the Las
Colinas Convention Center in Irvin, which is
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where we had it last year.
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We're gonna try to really outdo ourselves this
year or in 2027.
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We had a really great time.
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I would love to set up a golf outing.
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If people are interested, please email us at
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socials or in TPN Pro.
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Wherever you can, let me know so I can start
setting that up early.
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And if we have enough interest, we'll put that
together.
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One of our golfing volunteers, Connor, will be,
probably taking lead on that, as we talked
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about it last year.
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He'd be really interested in setting something
up for TPN.
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Hopefully, can put it together and get a large
enough group where we can actually fundraise
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for a charity, either start off with our Jason
Jason DePue Memorial Scholarship Fund charity.
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But if we don't have that quite set yet, we'll
find something else that's aviation related and
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works works for a good cause.
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So that would be something that I'm really
interested in.
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I hope a lot of you are.
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And the fact that I can do that means that I am
now going back to work.
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For those of you who've kind of followed along,
I've been on disability with some shoulder and
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back issues.
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Those have kind of I finally, after a lot of
work, really cleared them up and feel a 100%
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put in my return to work stuff.
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Still working through some of those wickets.
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If you're ever going through that, prep
yourself.
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If there is a little bit of pain that you need
to kinda go through and organize yourself so
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you can get back quickly.
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I kinda was ready for it, so I talked hasn't
been as bad.
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I talked to one of my union reps prior to that
who'd been through something similar.
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So it was a little bit easier of a transition.
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But still it does require some back and forth.
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Even with as easy as my company has it set up,
there's still some back and forth because of
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just materials that they need that aren't
really necessarily on a
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checklist.
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And no matter what, just kind of mentally
prepare yourself if you're in that position.
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The
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last thing I wanna leave you with, because it's
kind of just an intro to the whole season of
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what TPN is gonna be all about on the TPN
podcast for 2026, 2027, is taking a step back.
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I I talk about opening your aperture at TPNx.
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And if you remember last year or when we kinda
we had a a very dedicated monthly themed theme
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months as it were.
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And we might bring that back in the past, but
it wasn't really tripping my trigger.
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It wasn't really doing anything for me.
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I think it's still good to have themes in your
life or goals like monthly goals to meet.
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I mean I don't necessarily live by that a 100%.
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It's kind of day to day especially when you
have younger kids and trying to just get
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Wish you could wake up at 04:30 meditate and
then you're off to do your workout, and then
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you have your whole regimen of health stuff
that you do, and then you have work time and
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study time for going back for work stuff, or,
you've dedicated hobby time and it's blocked
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I don't get to live my life like that.
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I wish maybe I was more organized than could,
but I'm pretty happy with the way things are.
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So we're not gonna shift it too much.
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We're gonna we're slowly trying to drive to
that point.
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And now with two kids in full time school,
maybe, just maybe I'll get to do a little bit
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more of that, have a little bit more of a
directed laser focus on certain things.
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But one of the things is working off of that
aperture opening is realizing, like I talked
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about with this kind of organizational thing,
is realizing that just because there's somebody
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who did something one way doesn't necessarily
mean that that path is exactly right for you.
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That can be in aviation or otherwise.
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I have come to terms with the fact that there
were some things that I wanna do in my aviation
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crew that I missed out on.
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Because maybe I didn't work hard enough and
didn't get to be a fighter pilot.
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Or maybe chose one route of staying in the KC
one thirty five the whole time I was in the
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military.
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Moving on to a legacy carrier pretty early in
my career and only getting to kinda play around
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in some other spaces for a little bit to see
how they fit me.
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And I'm glad I got to do the things that I did
get to do.
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But now that I've gotten a lot more information
and knowledge to the great big world of
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aviation and see what else is out there.
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There's a lot of things that I wish I could
have done when I was younger, had more free
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time.
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Not necessarily the money, but the time to put
forth the effort to try to get those things
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done.
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I am really interested in flying an l 39.
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I don't know why.
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I think maybe it's my tweet background when I
was flying tweets and pilot training.
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Maybe I miss going upside down.
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I might even miss pulling g's.
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I don't know.
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We'll see.
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If I ever do it again, we'll know if I've
missed pulling g's or not.
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But I saw them at Oshkosh when I took my family
up there.
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Really thoroughly enjoyed.
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I'm I'm always been more of a warbirds guy, not
a general aviation guy in the for the EAA,
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which is amazing.
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Love what the EAA does.
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I've been going there since I was a kid.
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It used to be the fly in, now Air Venture.
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But for some reason, the
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l 39 kinda jumps out at me.
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I I just like the idea of going to fly it.
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One thing I would have done when I was younger
and had the knowledge that I have now would be
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to find somebody who operates an L39 and
volunteer my time for them in any way.
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With no expectation of getting a ride or
learning anything about the L39 more than what
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I would have been taught by helping them out,
whether that's sweeping up their hanger or
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handling whatever miscellaneous crap they need
done in their little life of of performing if
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that's a side job or just owning an l 39.
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Whatever I could do to learn more about it just
by being around the people and the airplane
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itself would have been ample for me.
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But I didn't realize this until I was older
where and now I I don't have the free time like
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I used to to be able to volunteer myself to go
say, hey, I don't want anything in return.
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I just wanna be around the airplane and the
people who know about this stuff and see where
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it lands me and see what kind of road I get to
go down by doing that kind of thing.
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And why I tell you that is for those of you out
there who are looking for an in in certain
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aspects of aviation.
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When we talk about networking, this is one
really good way to do that.
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If that means you know you're out in FBO and
you're CFI ing and you know somebody across the
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way has a P51.
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Now maybe you're not gonna get a ride in a P51
or anything like that.
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But to go out and introduce yourself and say,
hey, if there's anything I can ever do or I'd
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like to stop by and volunteer or whatever.
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And it doesn't have to even be that forward or
or hosting maybe a all airport wide hangar
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burger burn or something for a charity of
somebody's interest sponsored by the FBL.
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However it works, anything.
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I mean, are kinda sound like outlandish ideas.
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But just giving of yourself and your time is so
valuable and people recognize that, that it
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might give you a foot in the door to do
something else or at least open your mind up to
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other ideas within aviation.
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You never know where that will lead you and it
will you'll never know who that will allow you
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to meet and be introduced to.
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And when you do that kind of thing, that can
propel the career a lot further, a lot faster
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than just kinda sitting back and going, well,
I'm I'm I'm building hours as fast as I can and
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I'm filling out my applications.
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There's more to the application than what's on
the paper.
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The resume should speak for itself.
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But if the resume only reads hours and nothing
else, doesn't say that you've gone above and
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beyond, that can be really almost damaging in a
way.
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I I had this conversation with several people
to include recruiters at
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OBAP specifically.
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And the one thing that
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we talked about was how chasing hours can be a
fool's errand.
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Because while you try to chase hours, chase
hours, chase hours.
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Now mind you, I'm gonna caveat this.
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There's a time and a place for that.
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But while you chase hours, you're missing out
on these other opportunities that could help
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build your career and your resume so
meaningfully that that could be the difference
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between getting a job a couple years earlier
than you otherwise could or meeting somebody
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who could help you get there.
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And kinda being sidelined doing what you're
doing now especially if you don't enjoy that
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position that you're currently in or it's not
getting you to where you wanna be.
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So that's that's that opening that aperture and
trying on new things for size just to see how
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it fits.
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Now that doesn't mean to quit your job and go
out there and say, okay, I'm gonna try
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something crazy.
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For those of you that can do that
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and wanna do that, fantastic.
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Go for it.
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For those of you out there who aren't ready for
that big jump, what I mean by opportunity is to
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go
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out there and kind of put yourself forward.
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If you feel embarrassed or a little dorky in a
way to do that, that's probably a good thing.
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That probably means you're doing it right.
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I remember the first podcast that we ever did,
I was I recorded it.
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I was super embarrassed to release it.
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I don't even know if it's still out there,
anybody can listen to it.
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And it was horrible.
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Not to say that this one's much better at this
point.
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I hope
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it is, but back then it sure wasn't.
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And having that willingness to be embarrassed
or at least try something put me in
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a space that allowed me to get get into voice
acting and making a little bit of money off of
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actually talking to a microphone, which is
something I enjoy doing.
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If you don't have that skill set yet, this is
something to work on.
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Oh, by the way, this is really good for your
interview cycles that will come up in in the
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future.
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If you feel comfortable with being a little
embarrassed, if you feel comfortable with being
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uncomfortable with certain in certain aspects
and environments, that will go so far in your
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interview prep for especially for those of you
going into like those big part one twenty one
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legacy interviews or beyond that.
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So take it as by by broadening the scope at
which you are looking and doing things, you can
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achieve so much more than you think you can
just by putting yourself out there.
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Even if there's nothing comes of that directly,
you'll be surprised at what can come of it down
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the road.
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Anyways, that's my take for for today.
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I look forward to way more
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of this stuff going throughout the year.
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There'll be some solo episodes in here as well,
maybe more stuff like this.
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If you enjoy it, hit us up at
heyguys@thepilotnetwork.com.
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Let me know what you think.
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If you have a suggestion for the show or you
have a guest that you really wanna hear from,
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let me know.
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I'd love to try to go get them get them on the
show and get a different perspective of pilot's
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perspective of who they are, what they're all
about.
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Anyways, if again, if you have questions, hey,
guys.
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Thepilotnetwork.com.
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Make sure to check out everything TPN by going
to pilotnetwork.com, and you can branch off
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from all our socials there.
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With TPNx landing page, it'll be coming out
soon, so you can check updates.
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We're gonna have lots of releases on there when
we get different recruiters, vendors, people
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like that who show up and sign up for TPNx,
plus announcements.
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We're hoping for some really big and fun stuff,
different and hopefully better experience than
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we've ever had before.
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I don't know how we're gonna top last year, but
we're gonna we're gonna try our best.
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And as always, keep the shiny side up and the
greasy side down.
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Fly safe, everybody.
