Is a flight attendant a lower SES job?

[Anonymous]

It looks so fun but also feels like it’s a blue collar job?

[Anonymous]

Why do you ask, OP? Are you thinking of applying for a job?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It looks so fun but also feels like it’s a blue collar job?

Yes it is a service job

[Anonymous]

Yes.

[Anonymous]

Yes it is. Sorry. There’s a reason they’re called sky waitresses.

It’s a great way to travel, and it used to be one of the few travel/ business careers a woman could have.

Now there are other ways to do so that pay a lot better and require just a bit more education.

It’s also a hard job, like many low SES and service jobs.

[Anonymous]

What looks fun about it? It seems like a nightmare to me.

[Anonymous]

I imagine flying to Paris, but I think it’s more likely you just fly Cincinnati to Des Moines, stay at a Holiday Inn alone, and fly back. Repeatedly.

[Anonymous]

Seems like an awful job

[Anonymous]

I’m going to assume SES doesn’t mean Senior Executive Service in this case….

[Anonymous]

No way. Flight attendants have gone to college and marry well. And BTW--lawyers and doctors are professional, but in the service industry too!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I imagine flying to Paris, but I think it’s more likely you just fly Cincinnati to Des Moines, stay at a Holiday Inn alone, and fly back. Repeatedly.

Oh, I think it’s worse. I think you sleep in a bunk house.

[Anonymous]

One of the benefits is “meeting” pilots. Ask my sister how it ended up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I imagine flying to Paris, but I think it’s more likely you just fly Cincinnati to Des Moines, stay at a Holiday Inn alone, and fly back. Repeatedly.

Oh, I think it’s worse. I think you sleep in a bunk house.

It's called hot bunking. Sharing an apartment in the city where you need to sleep cuts down on costs. Definition here: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/flight-attendant-slang_n_6329064

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m going to assume SES doesn’t mean Senior Executive Service in this case….

Yeah I asked that once in a thread since I am
and got my head chewed off. It’s apparently socioeconomic status.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It looks so fun but also feels like it’s a blue collar job?

In a society where we feel a need to differentiate between white collar and blue collar, it’s a blue collar job.