Is this THE job of a lifetime????
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Is this THE job of a lifetime????
Hi
I am a lecturer at a College and I lecture students in a Certificate in Preparation for Air Cabin Crew.
As it is only part of a Travel & Tourism qualification I seem to have a small collection of students that really dont see the point of doing the cabin crew bit and just want to be a travel agent or tour rep - and I am finding it hard to sell the idea of being crew to these guys.......even though I was crew myself for many years and loved (most of) it !!!!
They are 17yrs old and I wonder if you guys that are/have been crew could give them some encouragement in any form - so that I can show them that there is a whole BIG WORLD out there - and as cabin crew you just might get to see it!!!!!!
Hoping for some help here gals & guys....Thank you in advance!!!
Richter
I am a lecturer at a College and I lecture students in a Certificate in Preparation for Air Cabin Crew.
As it is only part of a Travel & Tourism qualification I seem to have a small collection of students that really dont see the point of doing the cabin crew bit and just want to be a travel agent or tour rep - and I am finding it hard to sell the idea of being crew to these guys.......even though I was crew myself for many years and loved (most of) it !!!!
They are 17yrs old and I wonder if you guys that are/have been crew could give them some encouragement in any form - so that I can show them that there is a whole BIG WORLD out there - and as cabin crew you just might get to see it!!!!!!
Hoping for some help here gals & guys....Thank you in advance!!!
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The Job Has Changed
I understand their reluctance.The community in general either has no understanding of what Cabin Crew do or a distorted view of it.Hollywood portrays us as vacuous twits.I have been flying for 22 years,the job has changed enormously.Airlines in general see CC as a necessary evil.I would not apply for the job as it is today.It is today a young single persons job.Stay for 5 years have fun, get out, is the way to do it if you are going to do the job at all.
High attrition rates ,new faces is what the airlines want.The damage to your health is enormous and fatigue takes on a new dimension.Your life at home disappears.
Probably not the response you wanted....Sorry
High attrition rates ,new faces is what the airlines want.The damage to your health is enormous and fatigue takes on a new dimension.Your life at home disappears.
Probably not the response you wanted....Sorry
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Hi Richter
How are you ? Well i am still flying for a lo-co at my local airport, my personal experience is that it is hard work and you do have ****ty passengers, but there are also very good times to be had.
If you do a long day, like Edi and Alc but have good crew the day is brill, you have a laugh and have a sense of pride in your role, but if you have mardy crew it can be hell.
When i first started i hated it so much, i actually left, but then a bomb hit me, and i realised it wasn't so much the job, but some of the crew there, you all know the ones, people who think they are it, always thinking they are going to get of with the captain and live in a 5 bed david wilson home and live a life of luxury ( not ), you know what i mean.
I only work for a lo-co but it is good fun, if i was 15 years younger- i wish i would have started with a lo-co for a couple of years to get the experience and them and insight and then move onto long haul to really see the world.
The only snag in this job is if you are in a relation ship, i am and it does at times cause problems, but being away from home all the time i bet that it is really hard.
The pay is good, my company you do tend to get good rosters at times !!!!
We also get staff travel all aroung europe and also discounted long haul trips around the world and i have met some wonderful people in my 2 years of flying.
On another level now, are you flying this year rich ? let me know, love to have coffee
Michael
How are you ? Well i am still flying for a lo-co at my local airport, my personal experience is that it is hard work and you do have ****ty passengers, but there are also very good times to be had.
If you do a long day, like Edi and Alc but have good crew the day is brill, you have a laugh and have a sense of pride in your role, but if you have mardy crew it can be hell.
When i first started i hated it so much, i actually left, but then a bomb hit me, and i realised it wasn't so much the job, but some of the crew there, you all know the ones, people who think they are it, always thinking they are going to get of with the captain and live in a 5 bed david wilson home and live a life of luxury ( not ), you know what i mean.
I only work for a lo-co but it is good fun, if i was 15 years younger- i wish i would have started with a lo-co for a couple of years to get the experience and them and insight and then move onto long haul to really see the world.
The only snag in this job is if you are in a relation ship, i am and it does at times cause problems, but being away from home all the time i bet that it is really hard.
The pay is good, my company you do tend to get good rosters at times !!!!
We also get staff travel all aroung europe and also discounted long haul trips around the world and i have met some wonderful people in my 2 years of flying.
On another level now, are you flying this year rich ? let me know, love to have coffee
Michael
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Sorry richterscale10, but like DEFCON4, I would not apply for the job today as it is, and wouldn't recommend it to a friend unless it was for joining a big like BA or any other EU equivalent. But still the bigs are changing, and who knows what they will be in 10 years time?
I started from a charter airline and had to move up towards a big since the conditions were growing progressively worse after the first Gulf war. I had to move since for me it is a profession for life and not a summer job, and the t&d's they are proposing today are not bearable for a lifetime, or if you are planning to have a family, or resent being treated as a slave.
I am very happy where I'm now, but I couldn't grant any newcomer he would get what I'm having now in 10 years.
Quite not what you were expecting I'm afraid...
I started from a charter airline and had to move up towards a big since the conditions were growing progressively worse after the first Gulf war. I had to move since for me it is a profession for life and not a summer job, and the t&d's they are proposing today are not bearable for a lifetime, or if you are planning to have a family, or resent being treated as a slave.
I am very happy where I'm now, but I couldn't grant any newcomer he would get what I'm having now in 10 years.
Quite not what you were expecting I'm afraid...
