How to survive as a Flight Attendant

Interested in becoming a flight attendant? Recently applied for the job and need some advice about what to do next?

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• ample free time
• enough savings to live off of for a few months
• flexibility
• sanity
• patience

1. Get your life in order!
   Pay your bills a couple months ahead of time, clean your home, hand off responsibilities (such as pets, children and plants) to family, friends and neighbors. Make a giant to-do list of all of those things you keep meaning to do. Go to the dentist, donate those clothes to goodwill.

2. Prepare to live out of a very small suitcase.
   Figure out everything you would want to have access to over the course of about two weeks. Cut it in half, fit it in a carry on. Consider that there won't likely be time to do laundry, you will have no access to a kitchen and you will spend a lot of time sleeping on airplanes, in hotel rooms and in airport lounges.

3. MAKE FRIENDS.
   this is very important. through your training and travels, make friends with people, get their phone numbers. you will always have someone to call when you're stranded in a strange city or you have a question about your schedule that your supervisor isn't around to answer.

Tips & Warnings

• Hotel toiletries are your friends!
• Enroll in hotel rewards programs. Even the occasional use of room service adds up after a few months.
• Never leave home without: portable stain remover, a phone/address book (not electronic), at least 3 pairs of panty hose (ladies), a good book or some other type of entertainment.
• Avoid this profession if you have children, a jealous significant other, over-protective parents, a strong attachment to being in the same place with any regularity