The life of a flight attendant

 I have met an incredible number of colleagues who have been in the airline business for many years, all of whom have the same story: I had to do something for a year before moving on in my career...

That "something" was supposed to be a year as cabin crew. Many years later, I still find them in the job, happy and unable to see themselves doing anything else. I am one of them, wanted to do something other than my job as a social educator before I moved on with my studies. I took my graduate exam, but in the period I studied and the year of unemployment that followed, educated in a profession no employer really understands.

I often found myself looking at the winged metal pipes up in the air.

Thoughts like "what are they doing now, it came from there, where does it come from and where does it go" stuck with me for years. I couldn't escape this marvelous world with a subculture that only people in lifestyle jobs could recognize.

To me, that openness is crucial for my well-being.

We work in an extremely unfriendly environment and walk a lot every day. We stand on our feet greeting passengers for several legs per day. We help hysterical moms, scared children or unaccompanied children, sick passengers which we give first aid, we even deal with death on board in the worst cases.

We are everything from your personal shrink to firefighter.

Once a stewardess, always a stewardess!