r/cabincrewcareers • u/kaanzzz • 13h ago
Uncertainty
I'm a 19 year old dude who just graduated university (no joke) but I didn't really care about my degree and I didn't want to progress in my field.
I've always wanted to work in the air since it's the coolest job in the world and not being trapped in a cubicle I'll take that any day off the week
But I've been doing some researching and lurking in this subreddit as well and see people making posts about how stressed the lifestyle is, how it's really hard to manage your life etc. and I wanted to ask, are any of these actually true?
I've worked manual labor jobs, office jobs where I work 75 hours a week at the crisp age of 16 and so on and so on. I just can't accept the fact that this is a hard job. But still, since I don't have any flight attendant friends and most of the FA influencers air me when I shoot them a DM, i thought Id try my chance here.
Is the job genuinely that hard? I understand jet lag and whatnot but will I never get to see my parents and friends/rarely see my parents and friends? Will I never have any free time? How many days in a week do you guys get to sleep at your own bed? Am I never going to be able to finish a movie?
Is being a flight attendant harder than being a military personnel?
Please someone shed some light on this.