Grounded
"Why yes, i am 100% psychologist-certified unsuitable for piloting"
Current mood: Struggling to find my blissful, lackadaisical equilibrium again.
I just failed my pilot interview thing.
I must admit that i wasn't that keen about the 12 year bond and all, but it was still disappointing as it was really easy to pass and i was like 3 out of 20 people who failed.
Guess knowing about aviation doesn't really help.
I guess i said all the wrong things and i wasn't really all that comfortable in the funny stump of a chair.
Like how i was unsure of a military career. Cos i really didn't think about it.
Like how i gave them an example of how my mom lifted me there in the morning and they started calling me a mommmy's boy.
And they had to ask me stupid questions about killing people. So i said ok kill the bad guy to save innocent lives. Then they started asking about bombing playgrounds, hospitals or taking out hijacked planes if i was given an order. I didn't want to say yes, but i knew i couldn't say no. So i started beating around the bush talking about command, hesitating, intelligence, what-ifs and i think it pissed them off. So in the end on a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being cold-blooded killing, i picked 8 or 9. I think i spent the longest time in there and was one of the only few who failed. Maybe i'm special :P. But then thinking back i'm regretting why i just didn't lie about it and say yes no problemo i'll just kill all the innocent meatshields. It was just an interview after all. Argh. Why was i so stupid. I suck at interviews.
Then they had to ask me about my other childhood ambitions. Mental block man, all i was thinking of was how i also wanted to become a dinosaur. Lucky someone interrupted with another question.
Think its got aptitude but no attitude. The major put it to me so nicely some more. First he came out and told me oh i don't remember whether you passed or failed. Then after he went back to check, he came out, started grinning and then drew a line across his neck making some cackling sound. Ouch.
Been feeling crappy and watching alot of tv. I think about 5 movies. Like some dungeons and dragons show, Nightwatch, some russian rambo guy, american idol, some documentary and then the chumscrubber. Really good show, except for the part about the bad guy pilot-wannabe which did rub it in a little.
I was not looking foward to signing a 12 year contract. But I guess i'm disappointed because i didn't expect to fail the interview.
Perhaps its due time i started failing stuff and feeling something.
My journey ends here. Good luck and all the best to all the wannabes still in the process like Jierong and our dear prom queen (haha she was right after me, damn pro k).
A window closes. That leaves my other window to studying medicine in Singapore or Australia :D. Just not suited for for commerce or the military (contrary to what i used to think prior to getting shot down). It seems so easy on the computer you know bang bang and cg gore, but then if you think about it, its irreversible with no infinite spawning or savegames. Just like that bang and bye bye. No matter how small one little human life is on a cosmic scale, yours is just as small.
I'm just not cut out to be a pilot or even a soldier with my wishy-washy idealistic ways. How does Zong Yi the Conscientious Objector sound to you? I wonder if conscientious objectors get to go to ocs. Heck i better prepare a courtcase lest they lock me up in detention barracks for the full duration of my 2 years.
Haha but i don't think its just one question which screwed up the interview. I was also contradicting myself and not giving direct answers like how i like military aviation and don't want to join commercial aviation but i didn't really want to join the army etc etc. And they had to keep saying "let me phrase this for you in a simpler way. Oops.
And thanks for trying to cheer me up. Its 1-1 now:S
Current mood: Struggling to find my blissful, lackadaisical equilibrium again.
I just failed my pilot interview thing.
I must admit that i wasn't that keen about the 12 year bond and all, but it was still disappointing as it was really easy to pass and i was like 3 out of 20 people who failed.
Guess knowing about aviation doesn't really help.
I guess i said all the wrong things and i wasn't really all that comfortable in the funny stump of a chair.
Like how i was unsure of a military career. Cos i really didn't think about it.
Like how i gave them an example of how my mom lifted me there in the morning and they started calling me a mommmy's boy.
And they had to ask me stupid questions about killing people. So i said ok kill the bad guy to save innocent lives. Then they started asking about bombing playgrounds, hospitals or taking out hijacked planes if i was given an order. I didn't want to say yes, but i knew i couldn't say no. So i started beating around the bush talking about command, hesitating, intelligence, what-ifs and i think it pissed them off. So in the end on a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being cold-blooded killing, i picked 8 or 9. I think i spent the longest time in there and was one of the only few who failed. Maybe i'm special :P. But then thinking back i'm regretting why i just didn't lie about it and say yes no problemo i'll just kill all the innocent meatshields. It was just an interview after all. Argh. Why was i so stupid. I suck at interviews.
Then they had to ask me about my other childhood ambitions. Mental block man, all i was thinking of was how i also wanted to become a dinosaur. Lucky someone interrupted with another question.
Think its got aptitude but no attitude. The major put it to me so nicely some more. First he came out and told me oh i don't remember whether you passed or failed. Then after he went back to check, he came out, started grinning and then drew a line across his neck making some cackling sound. Ouch.
Been feeling crappy and watching alot of tv. I think about 5 movies. Like some dungeons and dragons show, Nightwatch, some russian rambo guy, american idol, some documentary and then the chumscrubber. Really good show, except for the part about the bad guy pilot-wannabe which did rub it in a little.
I was not looking foward to signing a 12 year contract. But I guess i'm disappointed because i didn't expect to fail the interview.
Perhaps its due time i started failing stuff and feeling something.
My journey ends here. Good luck and all the best to all the wannabes still in the process like Jierong and our dear prom queen (haha she was right after me, damn pro k).
A window closes. That leaves my other window to studying medicine in Singapore or Australia :D. Just not suited for for commerce or the military (contrary to what i used to think prior to getting shot down). It seems so easy on the computer you know bang bang and cg gore, but then if you think about it, its irreversible with no infinite spawning or savegames. Just like that bang and bye bye. No matter how small one little human life is on a cosmic scale, yours is just as small.
I'm just not cut out to be a pilot or even a soldier with my wishy-washy idealistic ways. How does Zong Yi the Conscientious Objector sound to you? I wonder if conscientious objectors get to go to ocs. Heck i better prepare a courtcase lest they lock me up in detention barracks for the full duration of my 2 years.
Haha but i don't think its just one question which screwed up the interview. I was also contradicting myself and not giving direct answers like how i like military aviation and don't want to join commercial aviation but i didn't really want to join the army etc etc. And they had to keep saying "let me phrase this for you in a simpler way. Oops.
And thanks for trying to cheer me up. Its 1-1 now:S
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