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What are the main challenges in becoming a lawyer and flight attendant?
do I need to work every single day as a lawyer , how many hours does a flight attendant has to work
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Karin’s Answer
Hi Yuseidi,
Being a lawyer and being a flight attendant are two vastly different careers. I would recommend that you reflect a bit on what draws you to each career. Maybe you just don't want to put all your proverbial eggs into the same career basket. Maybe you just need a bit more variety in your life and don't want to sit at a desk every day. Maybe you think you'll have lots of exciting trips to interesting locations as a flight attendant. I am not sure it makes a lot of sense to combine them the way you are suggesting here but there are ways to get a bit of both. Check with people who work as a lawyer or as a flight attendant to get a realistic picture of these professions.
Becoming a flight attendant involves a fairly short training (if you can get in). Depending on your airline, you might have a lot of flexibility or not so much. It would be a good job to have while you are in school to help pay for your education as a lawyer. Once you are working as a lawyer, I would suspect you'll be pretty busy just lawyering.
Becoming a lawyer is a fairly long and costly education path (if you can get in). You first need to earn a bachelors degree (4 years) before you can even apply to law school. You would want to get a return on that investment into your education. Especially in the early years, you'll put in many hours to establish yourself if you want to work for a law firm or start your own firm. Having said that, I am pretty sure there are law jobs that you can do on a part-time basis. But your earning potential as a lawyer will be much higher than as a flight attendant. And you build the basis for your law career in those early years.
I don't think you need to decide the details just yet though. If you are still in high-school or in undergrad, apply to airlines, do the training if you are accepted and start working as a flight attendant. Keep your goal to go to law school in mind. Work on your bachelors degree. You'll need to maintain a high GPA and get a great score on the LSAT. Law school is another 3 years in school, and you'll be busy. Before you can practice as a lawyer, you'll need to pass the bar exam. You'll figure out how compatible each of these stages is with working as a flight attendant. On the plus side, you'll have something to fall back on.
While you are in law school, you'll figure out what kind of law you find most interesting and in what kind of environment you would want to work. If at that point you still enjoy the airline industry, you can aim to become a lawyer for an airline too!
I hope this helps! All the best to you!
KP
Being a lawyer and being a flight attendant are two vastly different careers. I would recommend that you reflect a bit on what draws you to each career. Maybe you just don't want to put all your proverbial eggs into the same career basket. Maybe you just need a bit more variety in your life and don't want to sit at a desk every day. Maybe you think you'll have lots of exciting trips to interesting locations as a flight attendant. I am not sure it makes a lot of sense to combine them the way you are suggesting here but there are ways to get a bit of both. Check with people who work as a lawyer or as a flight attendant to get a realistic picture of these professions.
Becoming a flight attendant involves a fairly short training (if you can get in). Depending on your airline, you might have a lot of flexibility or not so much. It would be a good job to have while you are in school to help pay for your education as a lawyer. Once you are working as a lawyer, I would suspect you'll be pretty busy just lawyering.
Becoming a lawyer is a fairly long and costly education path (if you can get in). You first need to earn a bachelors degree (4 years) before you can even apply to law school. You would want to get a return on that investment into your education. Especially in the early years, you'll put in many hours to establish yourself if you want to work for a law firm or start your own firm. Having said that, I am pretty sure there are law jobs that you can do on a part-time basis. But your earning potential as a lawyer will be much higher than as a flight attendant. And you build the basis for your law career in those early years.
I don't think you need to decide the details just yet though. If you are still in high-school or in undergrad, apply to airlines, do the training if you are accepted and start working as a flight attendant. Keep your goal to go to law school in mind. Work on your bachelors degree. You'll need to maintain a high GPA and get a great score on the LSAT. Law school is another 3 years in school, and you'll be busy. Before you can practice as a lawyer, you'll need to pass the bar exam. You'll figure out how compatible each of these stages is with working as a flight attendant. On the plus side, you'll have something to fall back on.
While you are in law school, you'll figure out what kind of law you find most interesting and in what kind of environment you would want to work. If at that point you still enjoy the airline industry, you can aim to become a lawyer for an airline too!
I hope this helps! All the best to you!
KP
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DENNIS’s Answer
Hi Yuseidi: As a fellow New Yorker I'd suggest you have great options. 1st go to the courthouse at 6o Centre St, and sit and ask lawyers. They will tell you if you tell them it's for a school project. As a lawyer I can tell you that work is 7 days a week all hours. It depends on the circumstances and type of law. There is preparring motions and appeals, trials reports. All sorts of stuff. So the hours you keep will depend. Being a lawyer is not an easy job!
2nd. Hope on a bus out to LaGuadia Airport. Ask a flight attendant. Generally, flight attendents are either domestic (in the United States) or international (overseas) Depending on the length of the flight, an attendant can fly to a destination and then work a flight back and be done for the day. International usually means getting there, sleeping overnight and working the return flight. Alot depends on the length of the flight.
Can you do both? Generally no. You can go to law school and with that education work as a flight attendant. Doingboth at the same time will probably be impossible. Remember, a law degree does not mean you have to practice law. Some newscasters are lawyers, athletes are lawyers, business people are lawyers. Follow your heart - you'll wind up in the right place - in the sky or in the Court!
2nd. Hope on a bus out to LaGuadia Airport. Ask a flight attendant. Generally, flight attendents are either domestic (in the United States) or international (overseas) Depending on the length of the flight, an attendant can fly to a destination and then work a flight back and be done for the day. International usually means getting there, sleeping overnight and working the return flight. Alot depends on the length of the flight.
Can you do both? Generally no. You can go to law school and with that education work as a flight attendant. Doingboth at the same time will probably be impossible. Remember, a law degree does not mean you have to practice law. Some newscasters are lawyers, athletes are lawyers, business people are lawyers. Follow your heart - you'll wind up in the right place - in the sky or in the Court!
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Dr’s Answer
Mary's answer is not totally correct. In some ways, she's absolutely wrong. Let me explain. As I flight attendant, I can tell you YES you can do both. There can be a lot of downtime in the flight attendant part of your life. If you end up working with an airline that doesn't require "minimums" or a set amount of trips you have to meet each month (or quarter, or ?) then you'll be fine. I can take off as many days, weeks or even months that I want to with the airline I'm with. Flexibility is amazing with flight attendant, but then again you have to be with an airline that doesn't restict this, but there are many.
Now, getting to your questions directly. You become a flight attendant by first applying for the job. Look on the websites of the airlines you're interested in. Maybe they have an open call for flight attendants or possibly you could sign up for an alert system to let you know when they're looking for candidates. One of the biggest challenges of becoming a flight attendant is getting that initial interview for the job since there are tens of thousands of candidates constantly applying for these jobs. If you can get your foot in the door (or cabin!) but working any job at the airline of your choice or a flight attendant position at any airline, then you're more likely to be able to get ahead of the others when the airline you like most offers the job.
During work trip, you generally work like a normal 8-hour day but this can vary greatly. Some days could be only a couple of hours, and some days could be in the teens of hours, but on average it's like of like 8-hour days. But the true flexibility comes in the amount of days you want to work trips. The airline might assign you 4 trips a month, for example, which each trip being about 3 days long. Or maybe 6 trips, with each being 2 days long. You'll stay at a airline-paid hotel between your work days. But you can get rid of trips. There are always other flight attendants who want to work more, to get a bigger pay check, and they'll take the trip off the people who want to work less. Or you could bunch your trips all together so you're working for a couple of weeks and then taking a couple of weeks off work.... or, like I said, I often take a few months off a time. But the point is that you can definitely study and practice law while being a flight attendant.
Now, getting to your questions directly. You become a flight attendant by first applying for the job. Look on the websites of the airlines you're interested in. Maybe they have an open call for flight attendants or possibly you could sign up for an alert system to let you know when they're looking for candidates. One of the biggest challenges of becoming a flight attendant is getting that initial interview for the job since there are tens of thousands of candidates constantly applying for these jobs. If you can get your foot in the door (or cabin!) but working any job at the airline of your choice or a flight attendant position at any airline, then you're more likely to be able to get ahead of the others when the airline you like most offers the job.
During work trip, you generally work like a normal 8-hour day but this can vary greatly. Some days could be only a couple of hours, and some days could be in the teens of hours, but on average it's like of like 8-hour days. But the true flexibility comes in the amount of days you want to work trips. The airline might assign you 4 trips a month, for example, which each trip being about 3 days long. Or maybe 6 trips, with each being 2 days long. You'll stay at a airline-paid hotel between your work days. But you can get rid of trips. There are always other flight attendants who want to work more, to get a bigger pay check, and they'll take the trip off the people who want to work less. Or you could bunch your trips all together so you're working for a couple of weeks and then taking a couple of weeks off work.... or, like I said, I often take a few months off a time. But the point is that you can definitely study and practice law while being a flight attendant.
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Mary’s Answer
Hi Yuseidi. It sounds like you are interested in multiple potential careers. Many kinds of lawyers work in full-time jobs and have to work hours that would make it difficult to work another job like being a flight attendant, but there are some types of legal employment that are project-based or temporary that would make it possible to schedule shifts as a flight attendant at down times. It is typical, though, that in order to be eligible to get project-based work as a lawyer, you need to first have full-time experience for several years in a different setting.
I wish you luck determining the right career path for you.
I wish you luck determining the right career path for you.