Go for it ladies! I've been flying for 5 years and have no plans to quit any time in the near future.

After 5 yrs of service which is equivalent to 1 contract, you get a gratuity of $15,000. Which job will give you that?

After joining the airline, I can contribute so much more financially towards my family and enjoy a better lifestyle. You can save alot, provided you don't buy branded goods like LV, Gucci etc.

After 5 yrs, I have saved very close to 100k, including yearly bonuses. Wd you believe me? I am using it for downpayment for a condominium unit in the east.

The job may have its many horrible moments with crew or passengers, but won't you agree with me that every job has its politics too? Office workers, cleaners, cashiers, hotel staff, taxi drivers, even family businesses have their own politics.

You just have to be able to take things easy and be very patient when you meet such horrible people. It isn't all that bad. I was surprised to have met and still are meeting very, very nice crew and passengers in my daily course of work. Even if we do meet horrible crew or passengers, it's only that 1 chance or 1 flt. Because every flt we work with different crew and meet different passengers, working life gets really interesting.

I have never thought of joining SQ before but after thinking abt how the $ could help improve my family's life, I gave it a try and got in at my first try.

Go for it girls. You do not live to regret the things you did in life, but it is what you did not do that you would regret later on in your life.

You do not need to be gorgeous to join the airline industry, just as long as you have a genuine smile and would readily help someone in need unconditionally, you stand a chance to be part of a cabin crew of any airline. Only SQ bothers so much abt height and scars.

And if you think being a flt stewardess isn't a lifelong career, you can make it a lifelong career if you choose to. We have many flying mothers. You take a break of 2 yrs once you are pregnant to give birth and rest. After that 2 yr period, you can return to flying and continue where you left off. And if you are worried abt being away from your family and child for long periods of time, our rosters are actually very flexible! We can change away our long flts easily. And we have so many offdays that we can actually spend quality time with our child as compared to a 9-5 office job where you only get home at 7pm and sleep by 11pm. That leaves you with only 4hrs for dinner,housework,kids' homework and nothing else.

I myself am a married woman and my husband works shifts even but we have no problems whatsoever with spending our days apart. In fact, the time away from him recharges me and when I do get back to S'pore, our relationship improves as we make the effort to make sure the time we have together is quality-time.

I promise you that flying would enrich your life experiences, exposing you to the world at large and makes you a more broad-minded person. It is also a very humbling job because you meet and see many different people in many behavioural stages and you will realise that you are just an entity from a small resources-scarce island called S'pore which regrettably happens to be home to some hoity-toity noobs who look down on foreign workers and would not allow dormitories to be built in Serangoon Gardens.

Onboard, it is interesting to be able to see how a Jew prays, what a Kosher meal looks like,how heartwarming to see an Indian travelling with his entourage of extended family, how Kurdish sounds like, how a jain meal looks like, how a French couple communicates with their adopted Vietnamese kids, how an Icelandic man looks like, how ugly the super rich and famous can behave, how sad it is to see an ailing person onboard with a medical team and equipment being transported to another destination, how passengers pay for extra seats to strap on their gold bars, how a whole plane of Muslims on pilgrimage look like.....and these are just interesting and eye-opening scenes onboard the plane, I haven't got started on the fulfilling experiences outstations!

I urge every girl who is interested to become a cabin crew but lack self-confidence, to give it another try. You will never know if you have never tried.

Just don't turn into a materialistic person and forget your roots becos that is just plain stupidity.

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