Ex flight.attendant actually..

[flight.attendant]

That's it i have resigned from my job and i am getting ready for my new career, i am supposed to start my mental health nursing course in January.

Some people think i am doing the right thing as i have a degree in psychology, some think i am plain crazy to leave the airline industry for a nursing job! I hope i am doing the right thing. I just need to do something a bit more challenging that asking people "tea" or "coffee", or "chicken or beef"?

I know a lot of nurses actually go into the airline industry as airline like people coming from a nursing background.

The reality is the airline industry is not doing so well, working conditions are appaling and the job stability is just not there at all. At least, i would like to think, nurses rarely are out of jobs. Tell me i am right!!!

Anyway, i am one of yours now, well..soon!

[chattypattyCRNA2B]

Just wanted to say welcome:balloons: I'm just a student, but I'm sure some nurses will come by and soothe your fears:)

[letina]

Hello and welcome to allnurses :)

I have a niece who wanted to be a flight attendant and she was told a nursing background would be looked upon very favourably. So anyway, she decided to do her nurse training here in the UK with a view to maybe going into the airline business later. But guess what? She stayed in nursing, she's now a theatre nurse, very highly qualified with an anaesthetics degree, and has never looked back.

Good luck to you, and it's nice to have another Brit on board (pardon the pun) :chuckle

Tina

[flight.attendant]

Hi both of you for the quick replies.

Well, actually i am French but i have spent all my adult life in London.

Anyway, your niece made the best decision she could have ever taken.

Cabin crew (you are in the uk!) is regarded as a very glamourous job, lots of travelling...well in theory but in fact, because of cost saving measures, we dont get to spend that much time away. ON short-haul, we do up to 6 flights a day, and for what? The pay is bad, and the job itself is not rewarding and because the turn-over is hight they now take young girls young directly from high school, which means this job has become very superficial, working with some britney spears wannabes is not my kind of a career.

I need something less superficial and i am a very good listener. Initially i wanted to become a clinical psychologist but after my degree decided to fly instead. Now there is no way i would study any more to be a clinical psychologist. So when a friend of mine told me (an hostee as well) she was starting a course in mental health nursing, i rushed to the nearest computer and read all the info available on the net, that was 6 months ago. Now i am in touch with several universities and i had an interview with a London one, starting in january, i am very excited about it and although i am a bit nervous, i have a feeling i will like the job (and the studies!) and i think i will be good at it. What branch of nursing do you work in ?