“ women hold up half the SKY”
How does your typical day look like? Every day is different. There are no weekends, most of the time I don’ t even know what day or date it is! At the end of the month you will get your flying roster, where you see where and when you are flying, this can be a little bit adjusted by yourself. Usually you are flying somewhere where you stay one to three days, you get your allowance there( these are really good money which cover your food expenses and even some small shopping). You stay at a hotel in the destination and then you fly back to Dubai, where you have one, two days off and after that you do another flight and again and again.
What are the best and the worst parts of your job? You have a nice lifestyle with good money and stay in the best hotels at layovers. You see a lot of places, meet a lot of people and grow up as a person. The best thing for me is traveling. I travel all around the world while working, it would have never happened to me without this job. Another great thing in this job is discounted tickets not only for me but even for my family. I can travel with my friend or my family on my days off and it costs me almost nothing to fly home even for a few days. Life in Dubai is quite easy, you have to do your job, but you get a lot of days off, more than you’ d get at an office job.
On the other hand, you have to deal with fatigue and the people that are not always nice. Sometime you arrive somewhere and no one of the crew wants to go somewhere or you are way too tired to go out so you just stay in a hotel. Except long flights you also have to do turnaround flights and these can be really tiring.
“ You will see a lot of places and will have some amazing experiences, but most of the time you will spend in a hotel trying to catch up some sleep.”
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