EP192 - I Can’t Believe Someone Pays Me to Do This

Flying, and actually having someone else pay for it. The crew sits down with James Onieal of Raven Career Development: pilot, instructor, type-rated in the King Air, Citation, and Embraer 170/190, veteran of regional, fractional, and FAA flight check flying, and a career coach since 2010 (also a former FAA Sky Cop, but that's a topic for another day). Most aviation career advice is aimed at 22-year-olds; this conversation is for the midlife career changer: what Career 2.0 actually looks like when you're in your prime earning years, how a flight instructor made it to a legacy airline about eighteen months after starting the work, what changes when a 65-year-old airline pilot isn't ready to hang it up, and the question James opens with: what's your dream job? Tape-machine feedback, a review, and listener questions from midlife career changers round it out.

Mentioned on the show:

James Onieal, Raven Careers: https://ravencareers.com/

Brian's The Long Way, Cohort Bravo starting August 13: https://www.makesmallcorrections.com/

NetJets furloughed pilots in 2010: https://www.cnbc.com/2009/11/05/berkshire-hathaways-netjets-furloughs-495-pilots.html

James's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesonieal/

21.Five podcast: https://www.21fivepodcast.com/