Ok, now this just seems odd. I promise you I am not working right now. I am once again trying to get from point A to B and then to point A again. Where am I off to this time? Minneapolis St. Paul, MN for an interview. I am going to an interview, projected to last from 1300-1800, to be an Initial Operations Experience/Line Check Flight Attendant Instructor. It sounds like a mouth full and pretty serious but it’s nothing at a desk. I basically would be training flight attendants how to fly by using everything they have learned from initial training class. I have wanted this position ever since I became a flight attendant but many things got in the way that made me ineligible.
What makes me eligible now? Well, ironically I have the same record I have had before at my job, save for the PTW training, but the qualifications for the position have changed for the benefit of those who have made a mistake or two yet have displayed enough character, responsibility, and integrity to make up for it. This news was very exciting for me and I will pray that this is where I am supposed to be right now.
My day didn’t start off that great though. I didn’t have time for a shower because I woke up my husband too late for his needs in the morning and then lied in bed waiting when I could have been getting something ready. I once again have forgotten to bring Eva’s dress with me to return to her. I am not happy about that and I have let way too many things get in the way of me getting it done. Before I could say it was because my husband’s didn’t take it to the cleaners, yet now it is hanging in the closet clean and I still have forgotten it. I hope that doesn’t affect Eva’s decision in hiring me for that position. I barely made it in time enough for this flight, I failed to eat breakfast, and truthfully, I should have left earlier than I did to get to MSP.
Do I really want this? Well, I wouldn’t be on this plane if I didn’t. The truth is that I didn’t plan well. What have I been really planning well lately? There are so many things I have needed to get done for weeks or months now and I just haven’t started it. I definitely can’t go into the chaos of planning a wedding with all of this on my plate. I need to create a better energy, some clean space to move forward. I am going to bring it on this interview! No holds bar. I really want this. I have always wanted it.
Speaking of careers and where I want to be, I finally heard back from mainline. I have submitted my application and I wonder what will happen next? Do I really want to work for Big Mama? Well, I kinda just want that red dress, lol! No seriously, I do want to see the world. I do want to know what it is like to work for a mainline airline. Yet with my current airline, I have soooooo much more flexibility with my schedule. Is it worth it to give that all up to go to mainline? Part of me screams yes while the other part of my screams no.
Pros: possibility to fly international (for work and for play); experience what it’s like to be a real flight attendant (not that I am not a real flight attendant now but the difference between the regional world and the mainline world is kinda huge); more money (and mo money mo money money); the red mo-fucking dress (that shit is hawt).
Cons: loss of seniority (I can get weekends, holidays, and any day off I want right now. Seniority is everything is this industry and I can not stress enough how much of a lost that will be. Especially since I have just gotten married and Luis and I have just barely gotten to be in the same place. If I take that job, I will definitely need a crash pad); reserve is reserve is reserve (can you say I will be Big Mama’s bitch and crash pad, crash pad, crash pad?); I leave PTW behind (a legacy? Maybe. But now that I right this, that is a pro and a con); I will miss my friends (a regional is like a little family, at least mine is), I am not a good swimmer (ok, this seems like a silly one but I know that real flight attendant training requires swimming skills that I kinda don’t have).
Well shit, that is a long Cons list, lol! Does that officially mean the cons outweigh the pros? That would suck. But you know what, as a co-creator of the universe, it doesn’t matter what the cons or odds are. If I want this and work hard for it, it will happen without trouble. I can do this; I know I can. I would love to experience this and many things. I want to take advantage of this job while it lasts. I want to be a flight attendant. I keep thinking, will this be my last year of flying? Maybe; maybe not. I know I want to teach and I know I can do that any time. The window for flying won’t be open for too long. I better keep riding the wave.
Peace
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