11New Day, New JetFail with Honor, and Bounce Back from Adversity
I DIDN’T FLIP the switch. It was as simple as that.
We all have our unflipped switches in business—things we forget to do, mistakes we make, deals we don’t close because of something dumb we did, and straight-up bad decisions we made—but this one was a whopper. The little switch in question had put my entire flying career in jeopardy, and now I was suddenly down to my final shot at becoming a fighter pilot in the United States Air Force.
How could I have been so stupid? I had rehearsed the move a hundred times, but when I lifted that T-37 jet trainer off the ground and raised the gear handle, I left the landing lights down—a key mistake that cost me big-time.
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