chris priest wrote:

Is it really important to concentrate on a perfect on-center smooth
landing every time, or to just focus on landing each flight safely?

A consistently positive attitude is needed, because there are more
aspects to doing a job well day in and day out than you may suspect. Do
the best you can every time. You can be sure that there will be plenty
of times when that isn't as good as you might like it to be. Sometimes
getting it on the ground safely will be all you can do, and you want the
threshold for those times to be VERY high -- as high as you can make it.

At your stage in life you really don't know enough to decide what is
good enough, whether it's cleaning toilets or flying airplanes, which is
why you are working for someone else. That's normal. The fact that you
have devoted paragraphs here to justifying your lackadaisical attitude
tells me the odds may not be in your favor. Do your best and you will
move forward. Otherwise cleaning toilets may be as far as you ever get.


Jack