Gadling

Dj,
You will be surprised to know,The majority of flight attendants have a college education.It takes some smarts to get thru the training process that airlines put you thru and in the past most airlines required a education,maybe not so much recently.Alot of people who have a college education try the normal job thing and are dissapointed with it so they go do the flying gig.Most say I'll do it for a short time,but a short time becomes years because of the flexibility of schedule.

DJ. TOTALLY CLUELESS, ...MOST F/A DO HAVE COLLEGE DEGREES, SOME OWN THEIR OWN BUSSINES, AND A GOOD NUMBER ARE FLUENT IN MORE THEN ONE LANGUAGE!! TRAINING STANDARDS IS NOT ABOUT SERVING PEANUTS, BUT SAFETY, MEDICAL EMERGENCIES, AND MUCH MORE AFTER 9/11......BY THE WAY DO A RESEARCH ON THE CREWS OF 9/11 FLTS... 77/93 175 AND 11 ....AMONG OTHERS 2 OF MY FLYING MATES LOST ON 9/11 WERE EX-POLICE OFFICERS......EDUCATE YOURSELF AND MAYBE YOU COULD BECOME A SANDWICH BOY YOURSELF!!

As for your comment about most Flight Attendants not having degrees, sorry but I must correct you myself. I have been flying for 22 years, and before the flagship carriers went under, you could count on the fact that often times, the person serving you your chicken or beef inflight, was moonlighting from their real job as an author, accountant, business owner, realtor, teacher, registered nurse, librarian, ballet dancer, dental hygienist, medical technologist, professional chef, and even attorneys! And most were multi-lingual which was a requirement with international carriers until 1992. I am a registered nurse who left that profession after 5 years of 9-5, M-F humdrum, and I haven't missed it one bit. I love my job, my co-workers, and the idea of taking my family all over the globe for nothing!!!!! I have my degree and that's plan B if I need it, but right now, I'm content to "pass out peanuts" as it has so been called.