Do you ever rethink your choosen career each time a plane goes down?

[cloud nine]

hi all,

Just watched the news, and am very saddened by yet another airline disaster. Does this make you re-think your career path? As much as it upsets me,my passion is still to become a FA.

[Bluehair]

Hiya Cloud Nine,

It is very sad to see an event like this happening any time but especially so soon after Sept 11th. My heart and thoughts go to the families and loved ones left behind. :(

However I must admit that while it will most definately *not* stop me flying... it does give me pause for thought and remind me to appreciate those around us every moment we can.

Just my two cents.... :)

[PETERJ]

Cloud 9 and Bluehair.......
Hang in there ......most pax work on the assumption that if they(FA's) are cool they're's nohing to worry about.. we're all in it together !!!!!!!
(See warning at foot of page re eh....could that be journalists ? :p

[cabin lad]

Hi Everyone,
I think about changing my career when you hear such terrible things like this, but when you're back on board it feels like just another day at the office and you just carry on.

[euroboy]

Nope!
Still enjoy the job.
After a number of years as cabin crew I went to another airline which after a year went bust. Thinking "Great, now to do something else, time to move on, now I`m mid 30`s". You know that line only going to do this for 2 years, yeh yeh :rolleyes:
So after 11 years as crew off I go to do something else.
OK. I failed! 3 months later realised the mistake. By 4th month got to get out of this job. :eek:

By month 6 of the great time to do something else career path (failure) I`m back on an training course for cabin crew :D

Year and a half later :cool:

Yes things have changed in the last few months. Testing times. I look at this as, there is a reason for everything in this world. You just have to cling on and do your best. I agree things can get on top of you. But I have learnt that the only news you get to hear is bad news. Why? Coz thats what sells news, in the form of TV, papers, radio.
People would switch off to hearing good news.

Airlines come and go. History is littered with names that were either never heard of or household names.
After this has pasted, there will be new airlines poping up here and there, some will last others won`t.

Time is a great healer and the jobs as crew will become sort after.

[ 14 November 2001: Message edited by: euroboy ]

[flyblue]

Definitely not, Cloud Nine. I "am" a F/A, it is my job, the only thing I always wanted to do for a living. There is no reason for panic. Those tragic events have always happened, and I am not going to sleep on the floor because lots of people die in their bed!
There is always a risk in wathever you chose to do, and I am convinced I am more likely to die in a car crash in my way to the airport than in a plane crash.
Three years ago I got very ill, and went very close to dying. There was a moment in which I was so ill I realised I was probably going to die. That was an unvaluable experience. It left me with a taste for life I never experienced before. I just took life for granted. Now every moment , as Bluehair says,I appreciate the very fact of being alive and in the company of the ones I love. I also became more fatalist, and focused on the things that really matter to me, cutting away lots af time-wasting things and thoughts that seemed so important before (well, someone could call it growing into maturity...).
I don't think it is any use to allow panic and fear waste the things you really love and enjoy in life.

My thoughts go to all those who lost their loved ones :(

[ 14 November 2001: Message edited by: flyblue ]

[smile]

Hi Cloud Nine,

Thought you might like the web address of an interesting (or scary) site that has to do with this topic.

Air Disaster. Com (http://www.airdisaster.com)

It is (obviously) all about air disasters. It has good information about crashes, as well as photos, footage, and flight deck audio.

I'm not giving you this address to scare you, just thought you might find it interesting.

And remember a web site dedicated to car crashes.... well I don't think they could find a big enough server!!! ----Puts things in perspective.

[ohitsmonday]

Well said smile

We're all in much more danger driving our tin boxes to work.

[Aerienne]

When you are stuck in traffic on the motorway and hear on the radio that it is due to a big pile up, do you abandon your car there and then in fear? The vast majority of people probably utter a quiet curse and panic about being late in getting to where they are going to, in our case probably the airport! Air crashes make "good" news and hit the headlines because they are so incredibly rare. Also the media can spin out the story by creating grahpic illustrations of the incident and consulting "aviation experts" on their opinion. A little cynical, perhaps, but the way life is I'm afraid

[latin sky]

I can only look forward...and keep going...nothing will make me change this great job,not even this very sad accident's.I think of my fellow colleagues that perished and try to imagine what were they doing...feel great sadness,but life goes on,and the sun.rise and sunset are just amazing from my "office"...

[2daddies]

C9,
The recent spate of airliner crashes is just one of many things that makes me re-think my career choices - almost on a daily basis! I've done fairly well to get where I am today (50% luck/ 40% money/ 10% planning!) and so such thoughts do not come lightly.

Having said that, each time I catch myself thinking "I should have been a lawyer" I give myself the uppercut I deserve. I have myriad friends and colleagues that hate their jobs and seemingly live only to go out each weekend and drink/ socialise/ enter a fantasy land where all is right with the world. Now, don't get me wrong, I LOOOOVE this pastime myself :D but quite frankly I can take it or leave it. So long as I can sign on for work each day, sit in the right front seat of a large hunk of metal and let it take me places while only occasionally having to push a button or pull a lever, I think life is fairly sweet.

[emma.harris]

I get a little worried now especially as I have 2 kids but I still carry on and as
someone said once you are on its the same old thing.

[highflying]

Im not a CA but a F/O and just thinks about some of your comments there are times when you hear about an A/C accident but as some one said a) flying is the saftest form of travel. b) no matter where you are the sun alway suns on top of the clouds and be why work for a living when you can fly for one and have aparty on the way