ZippySushi
ZippySushi

Friend worried about her future.

One of my friends is a Flight Attendant, and she's quite worried about getting married. She often wonders whether a guy from a good family, with strong values and financial stability, would be willing to marry someone in her profession. Her main concern is the unpredictable working hours, which might make it hard to spend quality time with her partner. She loves her job and doesn't want to quit, but at the same time, she also doesn't want to marry someone from the aviation industry.

I told her not to worry, there are men from good families, with strong values and stable lives, who are open-minded and supportive of their partner's ambitions. The key is finding someone who respects her independence and understands that love and commitment are not defined by 9-to-5 routines. Also, marriage isn’t about constant physical presence—it's about mutual understanding, trust, and emotional connection. But she is not getting convinced.

20d ago
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FloatingJellybean
FloatingJellybean

there's a reason why doctors marry doctors, lawyers find someone in legal, and cabin-crew couple up with pilots. no one will understand your POV, unless they're in the same boat.

ZippySushi
ZippySushi

Yeah I told her to find someone from her field only, but she's not ready because she can't find anyone from her caste and around her age in that field.

MagicalCupcake
MagicalCupcake

I am coming from from family of aviation industry. Most of flight attendant leave their job after marriage. They usually go for ground staff roles or training academy especially having baby. Only in case where the inlaws are super supportive she will b able to work. Once ur friend becomes senior n start doing long flights she will b away for 2 to 3 days n after Coming back she will be on bed with headache n lack of sleep.

CosmicLlama
CosmicLlama

This is the problem in India. If a job is well paying , we assume it is a career. Serving coffee, explaining how to wear seat belts is not a career that requires one to sacrifice family chances. No offence, it's an honest day's work. Absolutely nothing to denigrate. But is it a career to choose over family life?. Absolutely not.

Instead of flight attendant, if this same work was in the office cafeteria or domestic household, this question/dilemma would have not come up. This is a case study on how money changes perception.

JumpyPretzel
JumpyPretzel

And why doesn’t she want to marry someone from aviation industry?
She should understand that similar professional setup always helps to work together, specially similar work timings/pattern.

Aviation profession comes with dramatic change in work schedule, frequent travels and long time away from home, so someone in regular day jobs will surly avoid, unless if falling in love head over heels. So she is right to worry about this aspect.

Either she should be okay to marry in aviation industry, Or she could change her job to some regular day job in aviation industry only (may be some desk/support job?), Or else she can only wish that someone from other non-aviation, regular day job will come along and fall in love with her.

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