Hey everyone,
a friend was telling me about this website and i thought ild check it out.I cant believe how much people write... compared to cabincrew.com its great to see... i love all the stories, and i thought ild share mine as well.....
Just like everyone here, flying was an absolute dream of mine.... i left a good paying job at the casino in melb to become a contractor at virgin on the ground.It was hard work... long hours,split shifts and you werent virgin employed and it took a while to click with everyone.But once you did it was absolutely FANTASTIC!!! ground crew are jsut absolutely fantastic....my mission was to always get the experience and hopefully get crew with virgin.Well things and circumstances dont always go to plan.... but i ended up getting a job with National jet in perth.... and then crazy me said ild come to darwin because of the $$$!
its been great flying and seeing how another company work,especially after seeing how the ground was operated when i was in Guest services at virgin.its very different up here... every trip is an overnight to Per or Asp.
My mission was alwasy to get the exper and reapply for DJ and hopefuly get to move back to Mel as soon as i could.
The day finally came and i was invited to a VRD day in melb....it was late notice and i had to use all my saving on airfare(well worth it)... so i went along to the VRD day, i was sucessfull in getting to the afternoon session.
I had the 1on1 and the roleplay.... and flew back to drw and continues to fly as normal up here.Im telling you now, that was a very long two weeks... constantly checking my emails, 2 weeks came and i got an email saying they still dont know and that it would be another 2 weeks. another long waiting period.... then it got to the 2 weeks and nothing!!!! it was another week after that that they called and asked if i could go to a medical check.
in between flying and all that i only had one day to do it, i was jsut lucky enough that the medical place had one spare appointment at 9:00am.....
i went along and everything was fine! I heard that after the medical virgin was quick at getting back to you wheather it was a YES/NO... so i waited... the weekend went by and i found out that the medical place HADNT faxed the paperwork.....AND THEN ON FRIDAY I GOT THE CALL.... i was lucky i had a long turnaround in cns that day....or i would be dying over the weekend!!!Its such a relief... My VRD was the 5th of july, so it was quite a wait.Im over the moon and im so wrapped.... all the hard work has finally paid off!!!
I guess the moral of the story is that anyone can achieve it!it was my second year trying(didnt get it my first go)... id moved from per to drw and half way around the country.Its got nothing to do with age... or anything like that!You may have to take the long way around,but in the end its much more of an achievement!
As everyone knows its a hard industry to get into... but if you have the determination,drive,some customer exper nothing can stop you!
BEST OF LUCK TO EVERYONE... no that i know about the website, ill have to keep everyone updated
