u/Jadeite-Song

TLDR: Girl. Kept getting pushed to be a flight attendant by flight school people (weird, don't you want customers, at least?). Normal/possibly to be expected in hiring realm?

For very necessary context, I am female, and have found a place to get my licensing done that will probably not be obscenely sexist towards me.

When I first started looking for flight schools, particularly in my area, I actually paid a few visits to the sites of said schools. At one, located further towards a more conservative side of the state than the others I had checked out, I had a series of really weird interactions. The moment I mentioned wanting to become a pilot, instead of just being the child standing silently beside my parents who just so happened to drag along instead of the kid that obviously should've been my brother, I was immediately met with an:

"Are you sure you don't want to be a flight attendant instead?"

See, a regular "Are you sure? It's a lot of work and dedication" or something like that would've been, y'know... Objectively better? Yeah? "But this guy's just a little older, clearly assumed it was a son interested, maybe just hasn't seen many girls trying to take this path, especially in the area..." I tell myself because of something called "benefit of the doubt".

Just kidding! I then got asked several variants of: "Why don't you become a flight attendant instead?", delivered with several levels of condescending by all the staff I talked to. Every time I tried to explain that I'm just not intrested in customer service, having to deal with so many passengers up front, at a higher risk of being assaulted... In my opinion, pretty reasonable. To them, not so much; most likely why they kept "making sure".

I understand, that, as society develops and social norms change, the answers to my questions will change with them.

With all that being said, what's it like in hiring environments? Am I just kind of unlucky and looked in the wrong place? Is there a higher chance I'll be faced with those kinds of questions in interviews, if any at all? Should I (or will I need to) try to outperform my competition even more? Or I could also be the best diversity hire, like a queer person working at Chick-Fil-A.

Thank you for reading and/or answering, if you do.

I keep seeing "oh, honey wardrobe is a Taobao reseller, don't buy from them!!!!!!" all over my page. probably just ended up on the wrong side of Jirai. But is there actually a difference in prices between common brands on Honey Wardrobe and Taobao? Maybe I just haven't looked hard enough, idk ꒰ᐢ⸝⸝´ඉᯅඉ⸝⸝ᐢ꒱

And before anyone comes for me: I CAN'T ACCESS TAOBAO. I'M SORRY I'M SCREAMING, BUT I LIVE IN THE US AND IT'S VERY FITTING RIGHT NOW! 💜