Step One

I hate applying for new jobs. I have a history of staying with jobs for years at a time and get comfortable with the day-to-day routine of knowing exactly what I am doing and how it has to be done. No applications, no interviews, no "new employee paperwork," no training sessions...just the effortless auto-pilot mode you enter into when you step foot in the door of your current workplace.

It has now been a week since I graduated, give or take a couple of days. It is a funny feeling to not have the endless list of tasks that must be completed by certain deadlines, the ones that keep circling in your head creating that constant weight we call "stress." It has only been a week and I find myself slipping into that routine life I have always dreaded. Wake up, go to work, come home, watch tv, go to bed. Then do it all over again the next day. I need to leave this job before I get sucked into the hopeless abyss that is to come.

Step One in my journey to becoming a flight attendant-Apply, apply, apply. I have applied for over six different airlines in the past week. All online of course thanks to the glorious advancements in technology courtesy of the 21st century. I have an interview set up with United Airlines in a couple weeks. They are flying me out to Chicago for the interview. How exciting is that?

Step Two-waiting. Now comes the gruesome part of waiting until you are called. I was never good with the whole "patience" thing but hey, people can change. Let's hope so at least. A wise person once told me if you want to get ahead in life, there is no room for complaining. So, until the airline gods summon me for duty, then it is waiting I shall do.