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i'm a flight attendant and right now we're going through the same dilemma. i'm just about 90% sure i will not return to flying. first of all, i commute a 2-3/12 hr drive to my base and i no longer want to be gone overnight, so day trips are not an option. i don't want the ha__sle of bidding every month then worrying that i have to take everything off my schedule. we would have to get a nanny b/c my husband sometimes gets calls from the hospital at odd hours and he doesn't always comes home right at 5pm, sometimes 6-8pm b/c he has his own practice. we would lose my insurance and we're looking for private ins for us and for his staff. i know other flight attendants do it, but i think i'm done with that chapter of my life. i've been a flight attendant 8 years, so i do go back and forth on this issue b/c of seniority issues. you know, once you leave, you lose all of it. it's a hard decision. my leave ends in mar. i took maternity and personal leave of absence. and i found out there will be no personal leaves for 2006. if we can find an insurance fast and cheaper than what we pay now, i'll feel better. right now, b/c i'm on a personal leave, we do pay for all of my insurance. i won't have trouble leaving the flight benefits, b/c we always pay when we go on vacation. it's not worth it to go standby any longer. i know this may have not helped, but please let me know what happens.

m- its so hard to give up senority. This is one job you can't pick up at any time. My hubby and I have decided I will go back for 3-4 months then we are packing up and moving back to my home town. I just hope I can drop trips. Am dreading going back. I don't know about you but since 9-11 flying is no fun, I used to love my job and its gone down hill fast. Do you have an friends that have continued flying and are nursing? How do they do it?

i know what you mean about the job being no fun any longer. that's another reason why i'm deciding to leave. i'm tired of being abused and i have better things to do w/my time rather than get on a plane w/ a bunch of cranky ppl. i can have a million bad days w/her and it doesn't even come close to one bad day on the plane. i'm not nursing.i don't have any friends that have nursed. i'm sure it can be done-kinda hard though. yea, senority is why i'm 90% sure i'm not going back, b/c once i leave that's the end-no flight attendant job for me. the training was no fun and when i first started working it was a blast-but like i said, now it's just a job. i wish we could move to my base, but my husband is established here and he's not going to move. if i lived where i'm based, then i wouldn't have any trouble staying b/c then i could only day trips. anyway, keep me posted.