u/Zah-iii

I’m 20yrs old starting as a bench technician at a repair station, the shift is from 6:30am-3pm I suck at waking up early even when I sleep early. I’m a night owl but I need to become a morning person before June 8th. I could use some tips or tricks on that as well as a list of tools I should acquire, I have some stuff from A&P school but want to come prepared for my first day.

The salary is 50k and I’ve been feening to get some good health insurance and this job we’ll def help. I’ve been in a rough living situation the past few months and this could be my big break to get my own place and fix my life. the ceo advocated for me when I applied and got me my interview, I aced the test during the interview, and all 3 managers seemed very impressed by my ability. I don’t want to disappoint or underperform, this is a blessing I don’t want to fumble.

So little context, 20m just graduated with my A&P and I was invited to take the ATSA after applying to an ATC trainee position at the recommendation of a classmate. I finished the test a few hours ago and I’m still baffled by the first 4 subsections.

The short term memory rapid calculation, and the radar diverting sections had me utterly baffled. I didn’t study for it but I feel I did decent. The radar section especially got to me in a way that no test I’ve taken ever has, I was asked to divert the planes while solving “basic” arithmetic and I barely got 3 correct. Watching multiple little bubbles turn red as I couldn’t avoid the collisions got to me, while trying to wrap my head around 55x17 and all the other math. My thought process the whole time was “I just killed so many f’ing people”

It got to me, I genuinely felt distraught. Ik it’s just a test and I went in with zero knowledge but it was definitely a eye opener for me.

The first section with the rapid calculation was a breeze at first but the second part where it was like

A= C/2

B= A+1

C= 4

Ya boy was baffled, I barely kept up.

The last part where you gotta judge the relative position of 2 aircraft’s was also tricky especially when they throw that eye in there and you only got like 5 seconds.

Overall, you guys deserve double whatever max pay currently is.