how we will run, how we will...
i definitely can't say that i dreamed of going into air traffic control when i was growing up.
it never occurred to me as a career- much in the same way that kids dream of being doctors or lawyers or architects, but never human resources managers or dental hygienists or aeronautics technicians. there are so many jobs you're just not aware of.
my introduction to the idea began one afternoon in my last year of high school, at a voluntary career counseling session. heck, i'd only wanted the opportunity to legitimately skip math class, but when the session yielded air traffic control as the most suitable to my aptitudes, i thought, "...what?" and looked into it.
having learned a lot more about the job, i had to agree that it seemed custom-fit for the tasks i enjoyed doing, and as an air cadet, i already had a passion for the general field. but the training program, run by navcan, had one of the most involved application processes i have ever seen in my life.
on january 15th, 2007, after two false starts when i was 19 and 22, i finally applied to take the first step in the application process- the aptitude test. there were 40 of us who sat the test at the same time, and we were told straight up that less than a third would go on to the next step- the interview- and still less, only three or four, would ever make it to being an air traffic controller.
i aced the test, i passed the interview, and today, january 28th, 2008, i received an offer of a place in a training program beginning in toronto in june.
i still have to make it through a very difficult two-year program before i can rightfully say i've succeeded, but there are nonetheless 378 days of tension slowly draining from my body.
dinner out and pushing tin this weekend- anyone fancy?
rusted root - send me on my way
it never occurred to me as a career- much in the same way that kids dream of being doctors or lawyers or architects, but never human resources managers or dental hygienists or aeronautics technicians. there are so many jobs you're just not aware of.
my introduction to the idea began one afternoon in my last year of high school, at a voluntary career counseling session. heck, i'd only wanted the opportunity to legitimately skip math class, but when the session yielded air traffic control as the most suitable to my aptitudes, i thought, "...what?" and looked into it.
having learned a lot more about the job, i had to agree that it seemed custom-fit for the tasks i enjoyed doing, and as an air cadet, i already had a passion for the general field. but the training program, run by navcan, had one of the most involved application processes i have ever seen in my life.
on january 15th, 2007, after two false starts when i was 19 and 22, i finally applied to take the first step in the application process- the aptitude test. there were 40 of us who sat the test at the same time, and we were told straight up that less than a third would go on to the next step- the interview- and still less, only three or four, would ever make it to being an air traffic controller.
i aced the test, i passed the interview, and today, january 28th, 2008, i received an offer of a place in a training program beginning in toronto in june.
i still have to make it through a very difficult two-year program before i can rightfully say i've succeeded, but there are nonetheless 378 days of tension slowly draining from my body.
dinner out and pushing tin this weekend- anyone fancy?
rusted root - send me on my way