This is how I did it. Worked as a pilot in a far away country, came back home and whilst waiting for things to improve, worked as Check-in agent. After a while I moved to BA as cabin crew before I resigned to work once again as a pilot. It's just a quick run down but it helped me to see/understand few things.
-Firstly and sadly there is a lot of arrogance in the industry. Some CC don't talk to ground crew, the same way some pilots ignore CC. Because Ground staffs are not that different, some will play the same game and make CC,PAX lives a little bit less easy than they diserve. The usual "them" and "us" if you will.
What stroke me is how ignorant about the others we can be. I actually had more than one giggle watching narrow minded, selfish, ignorant members of the Ground staffs, CC, Flight crew not interact but counteract with each other. So funny because so pathetic but
what those individuals never realised it that we all have an important role to play. We are a team than can even be an intelligent and successfull one.
I also believe there is absolutely NO job or type of work which doesn't diserve some respect. They may all require various skills,whether they are technical or people orientated, in order to do the best job we can.
I am not saying we should all get the same salary since the market laws tend to determine that but what I am saying is that there is nothing wrong in opening our eyes, learning about the world/others and try to get on.
It's late, I am off to bed