the point that flyagain raises is a valid one. some flight attendants are very well paid by community standards and some in the regionals arent paid very well at all.
the real challenge for those of us that want to stay is to get the balance right between the necessary productivity and pay, and the alternatives of leaving, as flyagain suggests ,or worse being operationally restructured out of work by cheaper low cost flight attendant replacements.
There truly is a world beyond airlines and being a flight attendant. But for most crew its not a life that is attractive. i guess flying is as much a lifestyle as it is a job/career and most of us get great job satisfaction. rarely do i hear crew complain of the job itself, but moreso about the way we are managed.
There are a lot of our managers that actually work far longer hours than crew and have less glam lives too and are very jealous of our "lifestyles".
We have to keep them under control by not giving them too big a target
