Is a cabin crew career overrated? It involves long hours, potential harassment by non-understanding passengers and broken sleep patterns.

I believe it is one of the highly paid jobs, so one can overrate it also. Duty hours and flight schedule are usually very different than other 9 to 5 jobs. But this is the beauty of this job. Since it requires a lot of physical and mental stability, one gives more attention towards their fitness, You have to be fit to perform your duties, every day. One has to plan it's timetable to adjust with these working hours. Plan your sleep accordingly so that you are not fatigued at the end. The job requires a lot of patience, as you deal with 160 odd passengers every day, You meet different people every day, infact you work with different team in every flight, That's something which is very much rare than other jobs. One will need sometime according to their adaption with the work culture but eventually, you will get used to it and start living it if you really want to grow with this field.

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. Since it requires a lot of physical and mental stability, one gives more attention towards their fitness, You have to be fit to perform your duties, every day. One has to plan it's timetable to adjust with these working hours. Plan your sleep accordingly so that you are not fatigued at the end. The job requires a lot of patience, as you deal with 160 odd passengers every day, You meet different people every day, infact you work with different team in every flight, That's something which is very much rare than other jobs. One will need sometime according to their adaption with the work culture but eventually, you will get used to it and start living it if you really want to grow with this field.

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"According to Steve Jobs; Do what you love and Love what you do.” This might encourage you. You can say that cabin crew members are overrated. The average salary of a cabin crew member is Rs. 45,000/- (highest is Rs. 60,000/-). Of course with this high salary, the expectations of airlines would also be high. Now it’s all up to you that how would you manage your 24 hours of time to look fresh every time and being proactive. I know it’s not easy at all, because of the hectic schedule. You have to communicate with every other person in a day. You are all responsible to manage 150-200 different passengers in a single day, always wear heavy makeup to looks fresh and decent and etc. This long working hours, broken sleep pattern, always being pleasant with all the passengers (even with the rude ones) makes this profession unique from other profession. So, you need to learn management along with tour other skills.

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Hello, The answer depends on from what angle one views the job. Compared with normal 9-5 job this of course is entirely different. Hours are long and definitely not fixed.It must be understood that it's a service job and all the pitfalls of service job happen here also. In olden times, the job of Air Hostess was quite different than it is today. Many factors have been added in. As has been pointed out, cabin crew flies minimum of two long distance flights. This amounts to dealing with two sets of almost 160 passengers. It can take its toll since cabin crew is trained to bottle their emotions. Also, as aircraft are flying at odd hours, so also cabin crew. Sleep pattern gets affected, family life can get affected. Then there is the question of growth also. Very few people can get promoted and then dissatisfaction can set in. Perhaps due to this reason, many people quit this job after sampling it for few years to pursue different and perhaps steady careers. To sum it up, one can indeed say that glamour associated with any flying job causes it to be overrated.

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