Being a flight attendant is always my dream job ever. I used to think this job was long lasting for me because of opportunities to travel ad high benefit. Until I cam a cross with an accident in 2009, I broke my leg amd I was immobilized for four months. In that time, I decided to apply m for a Master Degree in the UK University in Dubai which I still didn’t know what do I need the MBA for. After I graduated, I relocated to Bangkok again to get marry and set up my family. I was so keen to push myself into teaching career. I had found my personality type is ENFP-the ENERGIZER
E-Extravert – is my dominant personality types. It means I preferred working as a team and participate with sociality than working alone with routine task. My Like in my previous job is working in an international environment with multi-national colleagues which I can develop my English skill as well as skills in dealing with different people. Also, relocating to Dubai was an impressive experience. As a flight attendant, faced many challenging situations in trying to response to needs of people from all walks of life, and I personally found that experience was very enjoyable.
However, as a part of the job, I had to spend most of the time alone in oversea and that is one my Dislikes about my career. Even I enjoyed getting to know new people on the flight, sometimes I got depresses when I had face terrible moments alone. Besides, I was unable to manage my own schedule since every flight attendant has to get ready for work all the time even on my day off. The company has a right to call us for duty and it is undeniable. I had missed many occasions for example, new year with my family, my friends’ weddings or, or my cousin’s graduation. These make me feel isolated and cut off from social life.
N-Intuitive could well describe my personality as a creative person who enjoys learning new experiences. From my experience as a flight attendant, we are nor only responsible for service passengers, but also need to obtain much more knowledge such as, first a—aid skill, communication, aviation safety. With the valuable opportunity to learn new skills, the job was perfectly responded to my desire of acquiring new knowledge.
Although this job requires a lot of various skills which fascinating me to discover in every single flight, I still had to provide routinely scheduled service which is the most important duty of operating each flight. Feeling habitually in work makes me get bored and unenergetic. Furthermore, dealing with unpleasant emotion of passengers need much more patience to get through this kind of difficult situation. That was very tough time when the passengers did not understand why the flight attendant could not take action in the way they need all the time.
Feeling is another part for my personality type, influence by people top make a decision upon their emotion. To be concerned of other’s feeling is the one of important things in the service job to accomplish the passenger’s needs is the attractive part of this job which also give me power to keep going on my responsibility at the exhausting moment on the flight. On the other hand, being unable to complete their requests also has emotional impact on my feeling. To be like and admired by other people which influences my feeling is a good explanation of my personality type F-Feelers.
Nevertheless, dealing with conflicts from both of me and others is my Dislike which I feel hardly cope with this kind of situation. In every flight, there are many conflicts happen all the time. Sometimes, I have not brought this conflict to an end yet, but there is another coming. This is so complicating and tiring when I have to handle these things everyday. For example, when I just started flying, I asked a passenger to put on her shoes and prepare for take-off. She was very angry and came to talk to my senior that I was very rude to her. She also use terrible words with me and insult my nationality. I was very upset and that made me cry for tree days. That is the difficult part of this job which I have faced for five years.
J-Judging could express my personality type as a well organized-person. I always make plan to do everything in life. I studied my MBA and work in the same time. It was very challenging to mange both of them together. However, I always strict on my7 plan to be in the class on-time and finish my assignment on time too. Moreover, as a flight attendant, I become a flight self-disciplined person because we have to follow many rules about grooming, professional service and professional image of the airline. My characteristic as a Judger is appropriated to this job.
In conclusion, there are many Likes of my job as a flight attendant, but working under my dislike is harder to continue on it. After understanding my personality type, I try to examine what kind of occupation that suitable to me. Now I have no doubt why I prefer a teaching in academic area in personality development.