I do fully understand what ian666 is saying, because I made a list of careers in 1992 and 1993 for certain situations about me, and the one that was easily my choice if I was a female was flight attendant. But I have been aware that it is a mostly female profession, and I would not consider being it as a man. That is really a wrong view to have (and believe me, I am a very liberal femenist), but I just would not want to be it at all as a male (which I am), but possibly would have gone into it as a female, and it is probably the career that is the most gender cast for me. And I do intend to go into another career as soon as possibe that is even more gender based than flight attendant apparently, though this never occured to me once, and I've never looked at it that way (hotel housekeeper). Still, if any men want to become this I urge them to try for it, as it is a good job, with plenty of travel and sightseeing oppurtunities (which don't interest me, but do plenty of people). And there are a good deal of male flight attendants now, as I have read about, though it is still predominantly a female profession (I'm guessing 70 to 80%). But to you Northlite45, I did just call United, American, and Delta today, and asked if they could mail me an application and info pamplet of becoming a flight attendant (not for me, for a female friend who is busy), and they said that all potential employees have to go on the airlines web site now to get this info and acess to applications, as they do not mail them anymore (though they did until not too long ago). I did not call Continental, but will, but I was planning on looking at the info packets myself before giving them to her, as I was intersted in what one has to do to become a flight attendant. But you apparently would know, and I never thought it was as hard as you indicated here, as most have been it for years, and don't seem to want to leave. So I would be grateful if you could give me info on how to become one, or a number or address I could contact with this info. And just out of interest, how did it nearly kill you? I don't mean to pry, I was just suprised and wondering about that.
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Northlite45
18 years ago
No of course ure not prying hereminton,
I responded to a flight attendent open house listing in a Boston newspaper.But you did the right thing by looking on the individual airline sites, because that's how most of the jobs are found these days. (Try calling more airlines and asking for info)
However most airlines (I know continental do) ask for you to have very good customer service qualifications/experience and a college degree.
The interview process is extremely grueling and includes a fair amount of paper work so expect to be waiting a long while for responses, oh and also there is a couple of exams. So I wouldn't give up ure job right now lol. Oh and also the training period is about 6 weeks and includes all the things you expect,(safety procedures etc) however nowadays there is extra training (for terrorism etc) even when you've been on job for a couple of months. and in about ure first or second year expect to relocate to usually a large city which of course i never did, having only spent 7 months with them
Uuummmm, expect to be tired, hungry, missing ure family etc, no lol seriously it's a wonderful job for sight seeing oppurtunities and you do get to meet some great people. and if you end up working international then expect to see all those sites in europe you dreamt of seeing, it's a really good job for a confidant, outgoing person.
but the reason it killed me was because I just found it to be quite a thankless job that wasn't
appreciated, that coupled with lack of sleep is not a good combination.
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