I spent about five years working as a flight attendant and loved it (for the most part).

Most of the training is safety-related (evacuations, medical situations, etc.), but the job itself is pretty easy. You’ve board the plane, do the safety demo, hand out snacks/drinks, collect trash, and relax the rest of the day. This makes it an awesome job for anyone who works another job or is building a business because they’ll have plenty of downtime during flights to work on those things.

Pros

• Extremely flexible schedule
• Great benefits (free flights on most airlines!)
• Getting paid to travel
• Lots of downtime to double-dip with another job
• Pretty solid pay for fairly easy work
• Work with new people every week and make lots of friends

Cons

• You’ll start on reserve which is basically just being on-call
• Hard on your body
• Difficult to maintain routines like sleep schedules and diets
• Can be a dead end for some, from a career skills perspective
• Could be difficult with relationships, pets, children, etc.

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