I had a love/hate relationship with the job, mainly hating it while on duty, but thinking I loved it when I was laid off for 6 months in the winter. I then moved to a 'decent' airline, and sadly the love bit went totally out of the window. I still have happy memories when I look back a photos taken on long haul, in the galley, etc, but then I remember that these were exceptionally good times, or else the camera wouldn't have been out in the first place!
The problem is that you get used to having blocks of days off in the week, ok money, not paying for parking, etc, and I have many friends who have flown for years who would love to leave, but don't know what else they would do now. I stopped flying early this year and on the whole have never regretted my decision to leave.
Managed to get into ATC, start next July - my training is 18 months long, and I thought 6 weeks was bad enough at my old airline, so spare me a thought!
MR XxX
