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Anonymous wrote:I've been a legal secretary almost 30 years and am disappointed to report that not ONCE have I gotten to shout, "You can't go in there!" at anyone.

LOL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a flight attendant!

I don’t even know how to describe what it’s “like”. Can I share a typical day?

I live in-base, so let’s say my first flight is at 8am. I have to check in at the airport 45 minutes before the flight. My commute is around an hour (30 minutes drive to employee parking, and then I like to allow myself 30 minutes to get to the crew room from the parking lot (there is a bus that picks us up.)) So I’m leaving the house probably at 6am, just to be safe.

I check in, fix up my hair and makeup (standards) and walk to the gate. Meet the crew, have a briefing, and then work the flight.

A typical day for me usually consists of an “out and back/turn” (going from base to a city, then back) and another flight, where I will spend the night.

We take a van to the hotel, and from there, you do as you please. Sometimes groups go out for dinner, or sightseeing, depending on the length of the overnight.

If I started at 8am, I’d likely be done for the day and checked in to the hotel by 6pm. If there are no plans with crew, I’ll usually work out in the hotel gym, and depending on the location, walk to grab or DoorDash some food, eat in my hotel room, read, watch a movie or show, and head to bed. If there’s something noteworthy to see, I may spend the evening sightseeing, but I don’t love doing it alone. The next morning, I wake up and do it all again.

A typical work week for me is 3-4 days long, and I’m done the entire time. Some days are short (1-2 flights) some are long (3-4 flights). I don’t fly internationally as I don’t hold enough seniority, but I’m fine with that because I can hold a solid domestic schedule. Some months I bid for shorter week where you work long days, some months I want to explore so I bid best layovers, some months I’m tired and bid long weeks with long layovers.

I’d be happy to answer anything else!

Thank you! I've always wondered about the life of a flight attendant. A few questions:
1) do you like or, or is it lonely?
2) do you typically know the other crew? Do you often work with the same people?
3) do you ever feel scared when flying? I'm a fearful flyer and can't imagine being on a plane that much.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My dad was an ER doc. It certainly wasn’t like the tv shows.

Did people commonly get stuff stuck up their behinds?

Maybe not commonly but that would fall into the “it happens” category. It wouldn’t be notable though.

I recall there was a lady in there who went skinny dipping in a lake. A literal turtle clamped down on her you know what and it wouldn’t let go. No joke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a flight attendant!

I don’t even know how to describe what it’s “like”. Can I share a typical day?

I live in-base, so let’s say my first flight is at 8am. I have to check in at the airport 45 minutes before the flight. My commute is around an hour (30 minutes drive to employee parking, and then I like to allow myself 30 minutes to get to the crew room from the parking lot (there is a bus that picks us up.)) So I’m leaving the house probably at 6am, just to be safe.

I check in, fix up my hair and makeup (standards) and walk to the gate. Meet the crew, have a briefing, and then work the flight.

A typical day for me usually consists of an “out and back/turn” (going from base to a city, then back) and another flight, where I will spend the night.

We take a van to the hotel, and from there, you do as you please. Sometimes groups go out for dinner, or sightseeing, depending on the length of the overnight.

If I started at 8am, I’d likely be done for the day and checked in to the hotel by 6pm. If there are no plans with crew, I’ll usually work out in the hotel gym, and depending on the location, walk to grab or DoorDash some food, eat in my hotel room, read, watch a movie or show, and head to bed. If there’s something noteworthy to see, I may spend the evening sightseeing, but I don’t love doing it alone. The next morning, I wake up and do it all again.

A typical work week for me is 3-4 days long, and I’m done the entire time. Some days are short (1-2 flights) some are long (3-4 flights). I don’t fly internationally as I don’t hold enough seniority, but I’m fine with that because I can hold a solid domestic schedule. Some months I bid for shorter week where you work long days, some months I want to explore so I bid best layovers, some months I’m tired and bid long weeks with long layovers.

I’d be happy to answer anything else!

Thank you! I've always wondered about the life of a flight attendant. A few questions:
1) do you like or, or is it lonely?
2) do you typically know the other crew? Do you often work with the same people?
3) do you ever feel scared when flying? I'm a fearful flyer and can't imagine being on a plane that much.

Happy to offer insight!

1) It’s funny. At the end of a trip, I’d say it’s lonely, but by the end of my time off, I am itching to get back to work! I love travel and aviation in general, so it’s always exciting, but yes, I do miss home when I’m away.

2) I see familiar faces in the crew room, but on actual trips, it’s usually new people each time. I’d say it’s more common to fly with the same pilot than it is to fly with the same flight attendant.

3) Never. I love it!

I’ve been flying for over a decade, and in all that time there have only been two flights with in-flight issues, and just one that was treated as a true emergency, compared to thousands of completely routine flights.

I’m so used to the normal sounds and movements of the airplane now that I can usually tell when something sounds or feels different. I can usually tell when something sounds off on engine startup or while taxiing, and almost always anticipate the call from the flight deck before it even comes in.

As for the emergencies, one time, an indicator suggested the boarding door might not have sealed properly. They were receiving pressurization warnings after takeoff. We returned as a precaution, but everything actually sounded normal, if it hadn’t sealed, there would have been a very obvious whistling noise, and there wasn’t. Turns out it was an indicator malfunction.

The other time, the crew wasn’t sure the landing gear had retracted, and thought they were still extended. It was a short flight, so we continued, flew past the tower who assured us they were extended, and we landed with emergency vehicles waiting on the runway just in case. We landed smoothly with no issue at all.

If anything, those experiences just reinforced how many safety layers there are, even a small uncertainty is handled carefully, and most of the time everything turns out completely fine.

[Anonymous]

For flight attended (my daughter is looking at this career) -

Do you have a college degree?
If yes, in what field?
If no ,do you regret not getting one?

How old were you when you started?
Have you worked with the same airline the entire time?
How long before you have seniority to fly internationally?
Do you have children?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For flight attended (my daughter is looking at this career) -

Do you have a college degree?
If yes, in what field?
If no ,do you regret not getting one?

How old were you when you started?
Have you worked with the same airline the entire time?
How long before you have seniority to fly internationally?
Do you have children?

I do have a college degree, and it does help. My degree is in an unrelated field, one I worked in for years before becoming an FA.

I would recommend having one, yes. I don’t think it matters what field, but something she can fall back on in the event the career isn’t a match for her. Another bonus is fluency in another language—pay premiums and often better flight parings. If she’s close from high school studies, I’d recommend continuing in college. Also sign language.

I started when I was 30

I worked for a regional airline before I moved to my current mainline airline.

Technically, I could fly internationally but I wouldn’t have the pick of schedule that I enjoy right now flying domestically.

I do have a child, but I wouldn’t have had children before I was senior enough to work the schedule I do, but I have colleagues junior to me who make it work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve always wondered about other jobs. What’s it like to be a flight attendant? An ER doc? A realtor?
Any others? Or answers to these jobs?

Flight attendants deal with Karen’s. ER Docs deal with some of the craziest issues. Realtors deal with people that feel their homes are worth more than the market value.

[Anonymous]

I’m a teacher. We deal with Karen type parents, way too much paperwork and disrespectful kids. That said, children are precious and if you’re lucky enough to have a good administrator and fair pay, it’s extremely meaningful work.
I have missed many a night’s sleep worried about children. I routinely spend my own money on more than supplies - food or a bag of decent clothes, school fees for kids.

[Anonymous]

I was a Federal Agent straight out of college (21 years old) a spent the next 30 years solving mysteries, chasing bad guys all over the world, and literally having a blast.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was a Federal Agent straight out of college (21 years old) a spent the next 30 years solving mysteries, chasing bad guys all over the world, and literally having a blast.

So where is Nancy Guthrie?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was a Federal Agent straight out of college (21 years old) a spent the next 30 years solving mysteries, chasing bad guys all over the world, and literally having a blast.

So where is Nancy Guthrie?

She’s probably been deceased since Day 2 of her disappearance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My dad was an ER doc. It certainly wasn’t like the tv shows.

Did people commonly get stuff stuck up their behinds?

As a nurse who has worked a lot in the ER, can confirm it's nothing like the TV shows. And yes, I've seen a lot of things stuck in people's butts.

[Anonymous]

There's a podcast called "What's it like to Be a _______" with Dan Heath. He has covered some interesting jobs like a harbor pilot, hospice nurse, baker, etc. I recommend it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a flight attendant!

I don’t even know how to describe what it’s “like”. Can I share a typical day?

I live in-base, so let’s say my first flight is at 8am. I have to check in at the airport 45 minutes before the flight. My commute is around an hour (30 minutes drive to employee parking, and then I like to allow myself 30 minutes to get to the crew room from the parking lot (there is a bus that picks us up.)) So I’m leaving the house probably at 6am, just to be safe.

I check in, fix up my hair and makeup (standards) and walk to the gate. Meet the crew, have a briefing, and then work the flight.

A typical day for me usually consists of an “out and back/turn” (going from base to a city, then back) and another flight, where I will spend the night.

We take a van to the hotel, and from there, you do as you please. Sometimes groups go out for dinner, or sightseeing, depending on the length of the overnight.

If I started at 8am, I’d likely be done for the day and checked in to the hotel by 6pm. If there are no plans with crew, I’ll usually work out in the hotel gym, and depending on the location, walk to grab or DoorDash some food, eat in my hotel room, read, watch a movie or show, and head to bed. If there’s something noteworthy to see, I may spend the evening sightseeing, but I don’t love doing it alone. The next morning, I wake up and do it all again.

A typical work week for me is 3-4 days long, and I’m done the entire time. Some days are short (1-2 flights) some are long (3-4 flights). I don’t fly internationally as I don’t hold enough seniority, but I’m fine with that because I can hold a solid domestic schedule. Some months I bid for shorter week where you work long days, some months I want to explore so I bid best layovers, some months I’m tired and bid long weeks with long layovers.

I’d be happy to answer anything else!

Is it true that men will offer to buy your stockings? It seems that flight
attendants are even more fetishized than Asian women by middle aged white males.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was a Federal Agent straight out of college (21 years old) a spent the next 30 years solving mysteries, chasing bad guys all over the world, and literally having a blast.

So where is Nancy Guthrie?

She’s probably been deceased since Day 2 of her disappearance.

Pp is right, she likely passed away within 24hrs of the abduction, you can’t traumatize an 84yr old woman and expect her to survive.
Zero legitimate ransom demands means that she’s not able to speak nor be captured on video as proof of life. It’s been 14 days without her medication, I hope it was quick and in her sleep, but sadly I believe she’s gone.