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Today's video, I'm going to talk about: "What to expect when you finally become a flight attendant?"
So if you're curious about that, just keep on watching!
Hi, guys!
If you have been following this channel you
already know that I have been a flight attendant for PAL Express for three
years and as well as a flight attendant for Oman Air for another three years
before I started this channel or I was already working on this channel while I
was still a flight attendant.
I just want to show you guys or share with you guys
What are the different things that you could expect when becoming a flight attendant?
because I get this question a lot. When I was starting out, I wanted
to have know about this information and nothing is available online.
So here we go! Let's start with expectation number one: first thing is, I would like you guys
to expect that the training is gonna be hard. Don't expect that the training is
going to be about makeup, or hair, or how to walk, how to dress up. That's only like
half day of the whole 40 days training that you have to go through.
Expect it to be really hard as hard as your thesis or your last - you know, last year in college
because guys, it's really hard.
I do have a lot of other videos talking about training.
You can check them out here.
But just to give you an idea, in the Philippines, the passing score is 95% and you could only fail three times
and after that you're out of the program.
In abroad, It's kind of hard because you
have to adjust to a new environment as well as make sure that you study like a
manual this big - okay - a book this big okay, it's really thick guys, and that's
just one manual you have other manuals to study as well.
So that's the first expectation that I want you guys, to settle your mind to so that you won't
get shocked when you're there at the moment already.
The next thing that I want you to expect guys is:
you can expect that it will be a little bit lonely once you finally become a flight attendant after training
because the people that you trained with you will have different schedules.
So you have to be able to entertain yourself and you have to be able to have an
independent personality to survive.
Even if you become a flight attendant here in the Philippines, your schedule is different
from your friends who have regular working hours.
You know people who work from 9:00 to 5:00 and then they're often weekends.
Because your schedule as a flight attendant is very erratic.
Sometimes you have to work during the weekends, during the holidays, during at night.
And when your friends are having fun - having a drink at the bar,
you will be in the airplane, working and when it's finally time for you for your
day off you will be alone because probably it's a Monday and it's 10 o clock in the morning.
So things can get a little bit lonely when you're a flight attendant.
Okay, the next thing that I want you to expect guys is expect the time will fly so fast.
It's like, when I was a flight attendant I've been working there for a year
and then it's our anniversary and like my batch mates are saying -
"let's celebrate our anniversary". I was, like, -
"Really? One year has already passed?"
Because when you're having fun in your job, time flies so fast, guys.
You can't even imagine how fast it is.
Because when you're working there, you don't have any idea what is Monday, what is Tuesday, what is Friday.
Every time it's just a flying day and then off-days and then just like that time flies away.
So expect that time will go so fast.
So my tip for you is to save every pay day because you wouldn't know, five years - ten years - have already passed
and you haven't saved any money from your work.
So yeah, that's just a tip. The next thing that I want you guys to know about is to expect that you will be
meeting a lot of different types of people.
You will be meeting people who are really gay, really joyful to be with and you will
become friends for life. That has happened to my personal life as well, and
you will also meet people who has so many issues and gets triggered even if
just they're looking at your face and you're not doing anything.
So don't take it personally. People are people and they would do what they are used to doing.
You will also meet bullies, honestly - especially in the
Philippines there's a lot of seniority and you really have to bow down to them
to make them happy so that they will leave you alone.
Alright, so just expect that you'll be dealing with different types of people from good to bad in the
ranges like - this long.
So be able to acclimate (adjust) being able to "makisama" - you know
being able to get along with everybody is a very important skill that you will
need as a flight attendant and that not just for your customers but as well as for your co-workers.
Okay, the next thing that I want you to expect is:
you could expect that some people will have attitude and that's totally normal.
Some of your passengers may have been - you know, "Prince" where they came from.
So they would have attitude when dealing with you because sometimes they think flight attendants
are the "help", you know, "the help" but we are not.
But yeah, you just have to have a really have long patience when dealing with these kind of people.
You might have a supervisor who has a really big ego and you have to follow everything that
they will ask you to do: to the letter - to the tea - or else they will report you and things like that.
So just expect that so that when you encounter them once you
become a flight attendant you won't get shocked anymore.
Actually, I think that is the the usual that happens in every industry.
There will be someone with a big ego and there will be someone will be a problematic person
in the company or in your passengers or customers.
So just expect that to happen and be prepared when that happens.
Just try not to antagonize them.
Just try to say: "yes, okay". Just to be agreeable and amicable so they won't have anything against you.
That's my advice.
That has been working for me for the past six years when I was still working.
So just try to avoid any issues because - especially in the job of a flight attendant.
You don't bring your work home.
You leave your work when you leave the airplane so nothing is taken home.
The next day it's gonna be another day.
It's gonna be a brand new day and you might have already forgotten
some issues if you you know just trying to not to make it big as like what it is
you know don't make it bigger as it is and you will be all good and you'll be all fine.
Okay I have another expectations for you guys.
I want you guys to expect that the first month of flying will be physically draining.
It feels like you came from the flight you want to go home. Go to
your bed in your complete uniform and sleep because the altitude when you are
flying and the physical work that you have to do while the airplane is moving around.
It will shock the body and especially if you have like a small body like me
or if you are not used to hard work, it's gonna be a shocker for you, guys.
So just expect on the first month you won't be able to feel your legs
or you will be so drained from work that you won't be able to even take-off
your make up before going to sleep.
So that is what to expect guys if you want to become a flight attendant
because the job there is physical and especially
when you are above in the thirty thousand feet high, everything is much heavier.
Everything takes toll on your body so you really have to stay healthy,
Do you exercise. Get your sleep and eat healthy.
And that's the way we we are able to survive as flight attendants.
Another thing that you can expect when you become a flight attendant, you can expect
that you are always memorizing so many procedures every time you are going to apply
because sometimes they will give you a memo - there's a new procedure for this scenario.
So you have to memorize step one, this is what we do. Step two, this is what it was.
You have to memorize word-for-word all of them because sometimes when you're a flight attendant ---
If you are not a flight attendant you would think that our job does not
involve studying, does not involve hard work. All it involves is looking good and being pleasant.
That's not it at all.
Being a flight attendant, you have to study before flight because every
before flight there is an oral exam that you have to pass.
You have to answer the question of your supervisor and you have to pass the oral exam of the captain's.
So you have to be able to answer different questions about scenarios and
emergency procedures because that's where the safety of the flight.
So just always think. Just eat a lot of peanuts. [Laughs] so that your brain will have a lot of brain power
but you have to memorize a lot of things when you become a flight attendant.
The next thing that I want to share with you guys...
This is a little bit spiritual. Because for me, this is my personal experience what if I have
become a flight attendant I have become a little bit more spiritual or more
religious because every single flight you think about life and death.
Maybe not every single flight but it's always there. It's in your face it's staring at your face.
You always are aware that your life could end in that flight because
sometimes there will be like engine failures.
You will be so scared there
will be like people dying on your flight and then you will be reminded that
you're also human. It could happen to you as well.
In the field of aviation, you are paid really high because you risk your life.
You risk your life in every flight.
You risk your life being the flight attendant of that flight.
You are the one in charge of evacuation.
You are in charge of the safety of everybody.
So every single flight you have to study about what will happen if there's fire,
what will happen if there is engine failure,
what will happen if the pilot dies.
So you have to be the one to be in charge during those situations.
So doing this every day, you kind of become more aware that your life is short - your life is precious.
You should be doing what you should be doing and you should not be wasting any time.
So before when I was a flight attendant, every takeoff and every landing - we really pray. We really pray in
our seat or we do silent review of our emergency procedures because that is
what will save you in case of an emergency and you also have a lot of
colleagues they have experienced emergencies. A lot of colleagues died and
a lot of colleagues you know they experienced different scenarios maybe
they died because of personal stuff or because of work stuff but you're always
exposed in that awareness.
So I have become more spiritual during my time as a flight attendant
and because of that, I'm thankful because now I really choose what I want to do with my life
and I try not to waste any more of my time.
That is my expectations, guys.
That is what I can share with you - what to expect when you become a flight attendant.
This is from personal experience. I hope that this helped you out guys.
I've given you some ideas on what to expect when you, yourself, have become a flight attendant as well.
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Thank you so much for hearing me out and listening to my experience.
I hope that this helped you.
And I will see you guys on the next video
Fly with you soon! Bye!