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Old 12th Sep 2005, 09:39
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This forum is consistently bitchy. The industry seems so full of bitchy & bitter people that I am having second thoughts on having a career as a flight attendant. There's so much gossip on here that is taken so personally. No one has a Crystal ball. If people all knew the future wouldn't most of Ansett's staff turf their jobs to prepare for the collapse? Ansett once being a MAJOR carrier in Australia was replaced by a foreign player. Remember the press before VirginBlue started? There were critical remarks everywhere.

Who cares what people say on here it's just a forum full of 90% rubbish get out and get on with your jobs and lives.
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Old 14th Sep 2005, 06:51
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Phew exman! Bet you feel better for that little blast, you know your right tho.
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Old 14th Sep 2005, 08:27
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Hi ricciricardo. I think you made the right decision. Sometimes you have to let go and get a different sort of experience under your belt to reduce or spread the risks. I remember a guy who used to work with CSIRO. He was a brilliant scientist who worked at times with such greats as Dr Strahan Sutherland, you know the guy that led the Sydney Funnel Web team and helped save all those lives from potentially fatal bites. I met him quite by chance at a dinner party. He had told me, that despite all the great things he did, he had just become an ordinary man like every one else finding it difficult if not impossible to re-enter the workforce just to make ends meet after paying out his wifes medical bills before she passed away. It's sad. It's the way we treat each other in society that is so, so sad as we get older.

As a female just on 32, I haven't yet experienced that but you wonder how it will go one day when you change that job or take that redundancy etc . And so for some of the 16,000 or so employees of Ansett there must be lots out there in your age group and older still with no place to go and they really cannot afford to take risks like Ozjet. I have often said to myself what would I do if I had kids and couldn't return to the work force because I decided to be a mum rather that keep attending seminars and so on. You know it's a hard decision when you have little pods to look after. I guess the day will come. My desire to follow a career could be my undoing in the end.

I think we have to spend more time getting investments to work for us muich earlier and I am not short of a good portfolio on that score. However, when you have two mortgages, I can well understand the need to find secure employment or sail into the whirlpool of spiralling debt where there is no escape.

Apart from that, I do agree, there is a lot of bitching on PPRUNE but then that's probably because people don't want to accept the views of others and get into some decent debate.

 

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