The Similarity Between Being an Astronaut and a Flight Attendant
Growing up I wanted to be an astronaut. I wanted to go into space and explore a new frontier. By the time I entered high school I realized that my math skills were nowhere near where they would need to be to get into space, plus I was developing new interests as well. As I was leaving high school I went back and forth between either going into filmmaking or becoming a flight attendant (like my mother before me), due to my growing love of movies and lifelong love of travel and airplanes. After earning a Bachelor’s degree, doing volunteer work in Israel for nearly two years, and living in the state of Washington where I worked customer service jobs and focused on getting into the airline industry, I am now living abroad and teaching English. Funny how life works sometimes. Anyway, I’ve noticed something similar about the careers of being an astronaut and a flight attendant (other than the fact that they both go into the sky). At first they may seem very dissimilar. Generally sp