Isn't it funny?
You want an update? Okay....
I'm working, flying, singing, dancing, laughing and writing.
Well, at least the first and last two are true.
Working....being based in FAT seems to be working out for me. I have FINALLY figured out PBS and managed to land myself a pretty decent schedule for July. I will be working 5 trips that are 4 days long. I have 13 days off with 93.10 credit hours. That's a lot. I'm doing this to earn some money for our trip to Italy in early August. In September I want to go to Puru to check out Manchu Pichu.
I know, you're jealous, right? I'm sorry. I really don't mean to rub this in, but I LOVE my job! Last week I expressed my interest in being considered for a LEAD instructor position here at SkyWest. I will probably go through an interview process and tested. If selected, I will train to become one of those FA's that helps new hires on their first IOE (initial operating experience) trips.
Also, I have another article that was recently published in the SIA flyer. "Fish burps and bowling balls". Did I ever mention it? I wrote it a year ago, but it's just now getting noticed. I wonder if the one I wrote after that will ever be seen? "Pork and Cheese, if you please!"
Writing...3 days ago I was flying from SFO to FAT. I began writing another article. This one is less funny and more serious. I'm not sure the senior FA's are going to like it. I am a friendly, passenger oriented type of FA and I don't like fake and heartless FA's that pretend to care. This article cuts to the chase and demands a little sympathy for our flying public. Although it does seem like many passengers check their brains along with their bags...as a FA, you get what you give.
I do have something awesome to share with you.
The other day I was driving to SFO. It had been a LONG time since I broke out my worship cd's and listened to them in the car. I prayed to God most of the trip. Just as I approached the Bay Bridge my phone rang. It was Capital Christian High School. I was not expecting a phone call from them since it is now summer time and school is out.
She wanted to know if I had gotten an email notification about a fundraiser. She also wanted to know how Kaytee was doing. We talked for a while and just before saying good-bye, prayed for Kaytee and our family. In the prayer she thanked God for giving Kaytee a mother who was faithful and dedicated to her children.
After we hung up, I cried. I knew that God was using this women to speak to me.
Lord, you lift me up. You are solid as a rock and you carry me. Thank you.
Now, just two more things...I am hoping to sign up for a writer's conference in August. Oh, I hope it isn't the same time as my trip to Italy??? I better check on that!
Also, I am still running. Perhaps not as much as before...but twice a week is not to bad. I am signed up for a race next month.
posted by Kathy at 3:54 PM
2 Comments:
How's MB doing? You mentioned he was in the hospital a while back...we are praying that he is getting better.
7:24 AM
Good for you! And, yes, I do envy you your trip, a bit, but we took a big one last year, and I'm so glad you have something really nice coming after all the BS you've had to dig through lately.
IME most FAs are great and will do whatever they can to make customers happy -- the catch being that there's really only so much they can do as airlines cut back and back and back -- now they charge people for blankets and pillows, for heaven's sake. I'll bring my own next time I fly (I don't fly much, though, once a year if that). I used to fly quite a bit on business, and the one thing I've seen FAs do that I found irritating was flying Continental out of Newark to Boston: planes would often be late for whatever reason, and when passengers finally got to board an FA would come on the PA and say "we're late, will you slowpokes stow your carry-ons and sit down already so we can get out of here" (only in nicer words) -- as though the passengers had anything to do with the plane's being late! I know the crew wants to get done and go home as much as I do, and they probably had nothing to do with the delay either, but sheesh, don't keep us waiting for an hour (and the gate people would never change "on time" sign) and then imply that it's our fault.
But, really, I think FAs have a hard job. You're working under very tight constraints and getting blamed for everything that goes wrong, and for airline policy decisions that you don't like either. I've seen passengers get bent out of shape about stuff that, hello, the FAs have no control over, and that aren't that big a deal anyway.
Something I constantly remind myself of: sweating the small stuff only raises everyone's blood pressure, including my own.
5:28 AM
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