Let’s Just Give Up |Thoughts On Finding Brightness In Dark Days

Hello there:
I don’t know you and I’m grateful to have stumbled across your blog as I love to hear FA’s experiences and how it affected their lives. In life, the average person goes through three career changes. I’m not sure what’s your next chapter and whatever it may be, I wish you so much light and laughter on your journey. I’m pursuing with so much effort into becoming a flight attendant as my next career. I am single, no kids and blessed to have a few good friends, which is all I need. I don’t miss the drama of family gatherings because that’s pretty much the dominant vibration – drama.

I was a high school teacher and it would of been a fulfilling career hadn’t politics got in the way. I was ready to law school, then 9/11 happened and that changed the course. I became a career paralegal in NYC with a wealthy firm and the stock market crashed resulting in severe setbacks. I am became a Yoga teacher and therapist and I love it and for six years I reflected on what I could balance it out with. Then it came, just helping people – making them feel safe. I guess I attribute this quality in me because I just been around so many people filled with resentment, anger, character flaws and anxiety. I knew it felt right.

I read so many FA’s experiences on how the industry burned them, they missed their family(ies), etc. I realized that it requires a a strong calibur and mental clarity to be a FA. I’m grateful that Yoga has provided me that as it changed my lifestyle and how I see the world.

As I sit here, I am preparing for an interview with ultra low carrier in the US called Frontier for tomorrow as they are flying me out to Denver. Sure I was disappointed that I didn’t get the call for a real interview with United or Delta and that’s okay. I have to start somewhere and I’m confident in me. Your blog inspired me a bit to see this industry from all angles and mentally prepare myself even more. Perhaps one day i’ll get to be part of a team that flies all over the world. I’m slowly looking to learn a new language in Italian or French.

Thank you for your wonderful words!
Ernesto
Instagram: effortandgraceyoga

Thank You! Thank you for your vulnerability, thank you for your wisdom, thank you for your light! I left a job I loved to become a flight attendant –almost 2 years ago– because I had so much wanderlust. This morning I was browsing through a PR forum, and saw a posting for writers to review a portable coffee brewing machine. All I wanted to do was find a blog that I could potentially pitch an article, what I found was your site. Your honesty, your passion, your failures, your unshakable faith, and amazing gift for writing, may have just saved me. What you have shared and continue to share, is a narrative that I have found myself so often feeling, and I thought I was in it alone. I may not have all of this life figured out, but I know one thing. YOU WILL succeed! Your positive outlook, your use of your gifts, your sharing of your faith, and your belief, is so important. God has and will continue receive so much glory from your life, and for that you will be blessed beyond measure! I don’t even know you, but I can see the blessings that will be upon you. Keep shining, and I can’t wait to see where life takes you!

Girl, I relate so very much to your blog: it’s truly divine to read your thoughts sprawled out on my phone while traveling. Often, I feel like you are speaking exactly what’s in my mind! Keep on keepin’ on! Private is AMAZING- you’ll love it AND thrive. Blessings girl!