1. "Airline and Commercial Pilots." bls.gov. United States Department of Labor, 8 Jan 2014. Web. <http://www.bls.gov/ooh/transportation-and-material-moving/airline-and-commercial-pilots.htm>
2. "Air Traffic Controllers." bls. United States Department of Labor, 8 Jan 2014. Web. <http://www.bls.gov/ooh/transportation-and-material-moving/air-traffic-controllers.htm>
3. David, Chong. "Dealing with Psychological Stress." Air Line Pilots Association. 1 Oct. 2001. Web. <https://www.alpa.org/portals/alpa/magazine/2001/Oct2001_DealingPsychologicalStress.htm>
4. Malmquist, Shem. "Becoming an Airline Pilot". Jetcareers.com. Web. <http://www.jetcareers.com/becoming-an-airline-pilot.html>
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Sunday, October 26, 2014
10 Question Research Paper Assignment
The Path to Becoming A Pilot/Air Traffic Transporter
I decided to do my research paper on my current goals and aspirations, which are to become a pilot for a large airline or as a corporate pilot, with many unique or odd jobs/opportunities along the way. This is a wish that I've had my entire life, and I am happy that I'll be able to start formally researching the information on my own in addition to what I will later learn in my classes to get as best of an understanding.
1. How will stress affect my health and my ability to continue doing my job?
2. How much will it cost to receive the training necessary for my career fields?
3. How much competition is there in my job fields and, statistically, how many people never finish training?
4. What other lines of work will I be able to do if there are troubles in my current highly specialized field?
5. How will my job affect my personal life and the relationships between me and my friends, family, and girlfriends/wives?
6. Will I still be able to achieve my other life goals of volunteering at a fire department, traveling the world (not so easy if I go with ATC and being a pilot doesn't guarantee I'll enjoy my travels), and having a secure, permanent, and stable home life?
7. Will pursuing this career give me a new outlook on life?
8. How easy is it to rise through the ranks and take upon more responsibilities?
9. Will the work be replaced by computers and automation before I retire?
10. What are some unexpected obstacles that I may face?
11. How will my family feel knowing I work in a potentially very dangerous and sometimes purposely targeted job field?
12. Will I be able to recover mentally/physically if there's an accident or I cause complications?
I decided to do my research paper on my current goals and aspirations, which are to become a pilot for a large airline or as a corporate pilot, with many unique or odd jobs/opportunities along the way. This is a wish that I've had my entire life, and I am happy that I'll be able to start formally researching the information on my own in addition to what I will later learn in my classes to get as best of an understanding.
1. How will stress affect my health and my ability to continue doing my job?
2. How much will it cost to receive the training necessary for my career fields?
3. How much competition is there in my job fields and, statistically, how many people never finish training?
4. What other lines of work will I be able to do if there are troubles in my current highly specialized field?
5. How will my job affect my personal life and the relationships between me and my friends, family, and girlfriends/wives?
6. Will I still be able to achieve my other life goals of volunteering at a fire department, traveling the world (not so easy if I go with ATC and being a pilot doesn't guarantee I'll enjoy my travels), and having a secure, permanent, and stable home life?
7. Will pursuing this career give me a new outlook on life?
8. How easy is it to rise through the ranks and take upon more responsibilities?
9. Will the work be replaced by computers and automation before I retire?
10. What are some unexpected obstacles that I may face?
11. How will my family feel knowing I work in a potentially very dangerous and sometimes purposely targeted job field?
12. Will I be able to recover mentally/physically if there's an accident or I cause complications?
Monday, October 20, 2014
First Blog Post Assignment
Technical Questions (5)
I'm really interested in the wide range of customizations I can do to my blog, and in particular I really like that you are able to customize your background picture. I think this is a particularly important choice because it will the the one permanent aspect of the blog that will follow my reader everywhere they go, no matter how much they scroll down or what they look at. I want this to be as accurate of a representation of me as possible, and part of that would be for make it to look as neat as possible. However, there is an issue because the screen is much wider than the photo and it gives my blog a very cut-up and choppy feeling, which I would prefer to fix. Does anyone know any way I'd be able to crop my photo or extend it so that it would fit each user's screen and give as solid and defined background picture as possible?
If you'd like to provide feedback on my current picture and layout that would be greatly appreciated too!
Since this blog will revolve around my coursework as well as my personal interest's coming up with an all-inclusive title might be difficult, but I think it'd be a good idea to let the title revolve around the most pertinent aspect, my coursework, since that is the most important factor and my interest's may overlap. That is why I will be leaving the title of my blog as "Adam Sadek's College Writing 1 Blog". If anyone else thinks I should change it to something more provocative I am willing to hear their reasoning.
Post an image or video that has your curiosity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrazft5rh_k
This video is very interesting to me because it consists of many things that I have thought about it the past or think about doing in the future. As an aviation student and aspiring pilot, I have put a lot of thought into the dangers of my hobby and potential career, and know that tragedies happen all the time. I also have thought about going skydiving at some point in my life and working as a pilot for a skydiving company as I work to build up my credentials, networking, and experience. That is why this video hits very close home, since this is something that may very well happen to me one day. Amazingly, despite the the mid-air collision seeming to be very severe and the damage to the planes substantial, hence the missing wing(s) and explosions, all the people aboard managed to survive and land relatively unharmed. While the positive outcome is very uplifting, it should also be noted that everyone was very lucky, and that more precautions should be taken to prevent something like this happening in the future. I don't know where my career will take me just yet but because of this video I'll always remember the potential dangers of my job and try to minimize them.
I'm really interested in the wide range of customizations I can do to my blog, and in particular I really like that you are able to customize your background picture. I think this is a particularly important choice because it will the the one permanent aspect of the blog that will follow my reader everywhere they go, no matter how much they scroll down or what they look at. I want this to be as accurate of a representation of me as possible, and part of that would be for make it to look as neat as possible. However, there is an issue because the screen is much wider than the photo and it gives my blog a very cut-up and choppy feeling, which I would prefer to fix. Does anyone know any way I'd be able to crop my photo or extend it so that it would fit each user's screen and give as solid and defined background picture as possible?
If you'd like to provide feedback on my current picture and layout that would be greatly appreciated too!
Since this blog will revolve around my coursework as well as my personal interest's coming up with an all-inclusive title might be difficult, but I think it'd be a good idea to let the title revolve around the most pertinent aspect, my coursework, since that is the most important factor and my interest's may overlap. That is why I will be leaving the title of my blog as "Adam Sadek's College Writing 1 Blog". If anyone else thinks I should change it to something more provocative I am willing to hear their reasoning.
Post an image or video that has your curiosity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrazft5rh_k
This video is very interesting to me because it consists of many things that I have thought about it the past or think about doing in the future. As an aviation student and aspiring pilot, I have put a lot of thought into the dangers of my hobby and potential career, and know that tragedies happen all the time. I also have thought about going skydiving at some point in my life and working as a pilot for a skydiving company as I work to build up my credentials, networking, and experience. That is why this video hits very close home, since this is something that may very well happen to me one day. Amazingly, despite the the mid-air collision seeming to be very severe and the damage to the planes substantial, hence the missing wing(s) and explosions, all the people aboard managed to survive and land relatively unharmed. While the positive outcome is very uplifting, it should also be noted that everyone was very lucky, and that more precautions should be taken to prevent something like this happening in the future. I don't know where my career will take me just yet but because of this video I'll always remember the potential dangers of my job and try to minimize them.
The Summoned Life by David Brooks Summary
Adam Sadek
Dr. Walts
College Writing 1
10/14/14
An Argument-less Article
In his
short article David Brooks tries to get one point across using two examples,
but not really promote one over the other either. He tries to say that it is
best for a person trying to live a well-considered life to consider two
different ways in which they can structure their life, and then describes those
ways. The first is to talk about the Well-Planned Life, which revolves around
taking time to reflect and come up with an overall purpose for yourself and
then strive to achieve it. For this example, he introduces professor Clayton
Christenson and relays his interpretation of what it means to figure out what
people want to do with their lives. Christenson relies on providing personal
anecdotes of his younger self as he went about his educational career following
the parameters of the well-planned life. Brooks utilizes both quotes from
Christenson and describes aspects of his life to get his reader to understand
that side of the argument. The other is the Summoned Life, which consists of
taking in your environmental and situational factors and then molding yourself
to fit into it and eventually change it by becoming a part of it. For his
Summoned Life example, he transitions fairly abruptly from talking about the
Well-planned life and uses his own argument and provides definitions for what
it means to think about life in those terms. He gives his readers a situation
they understand and describes how someone living a summoned life may view them
and go through them. He does this to finally reveal that the Well-Planned life
is common in America and the Summoned Life is common elsewhere. The author’s
purpose isn’t to sway his readers to embrace one way and ignore the other, it
is merely to provide a factual description of both.
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