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I feel more like myself than ever before. Now, I don’t know what I most closely identify with (except for Griffin 200% of the time), but I feel so incredibly inspired, alive, and motivated. I always thought I would hold onto and identify more closely with commercial flight attendants.

I never thought that I would really like being a corporate flight attendant. Maybe that’s just another miracle-story of my life. I would stare at the bright teal water and breathe in the island air, all while marveling at how I actually made it ‘here.’ Not just ‘here’ being an overhyped luxury destination, but ‘here’ being, “How did I stick with this private aviation path long enough to know that it could be so good?” That I would like the job so much and find so much satisfaction in all of it? How did I get ‘here’ when it was SO fucking hard and painful for so long? When I thought I had made a mistake in my career? When I thought I would never be “good at this?” When I didn’t even know ‘here’ could even exist?” I floated around on a Unicorn pool float, feeling like I had a ‘Unicorn’ job, while on the ‘Unicorn’ of private jet trips. I just spent the last nine days in Bora Bora, French Polynesia as a contract corporate flight attendant.

That narrative is the unbelievable story that I have been living- all started due to rejection. I thought that I could have been happy at either company, and I probably could have, but Someone (God, The Universe, Infinite Love…whatever you want to call it) had an unbelievable story just waiting for me to be co-writer in it. Decent pay scale (at those two companies).

I thought I was an ‘Airline Girl’- completely. I did want to be a corporate flight attendant, but not as much as I liked the surety and perceived employee happiness at companies like Southwest or Alaska Airlines. It happened at a time when I had already left Norwegian Airlines as an International Cabin Crew Member, so I needed a job. It was the Southwest Airlines rejection that was the catalyst for my pivot into private aviation. You will have better- even better than what you believe to be the best. Your dreams are greater and more far-reaching than you can currently envision. The painful rejections and stinging disappointments you have faced are creating for you a richer life story. Right now, you cannot even fathom the incredible destinations that will arrive soon in your life. We/I don’t want yous.’ The, ‘you missed this one.’ Your not the choice. Thank you so much! For, if you had picked me, I would have missed out on my best, most crazy, cool, challenging, awe-inspiring, and blessed adventure I have experienced yet.”īegin thanking God now for the ‘No. Because now, it feels like a miracle and all I care to say is, “ Thank you Southwest Airlines for NOT picking me. It seems strange, but I don’t really care about the reasons or what went into the decision. We’ve decided to go with other candidates.” I don’t know why. What is considered the ‘Best Airline,’ with the happiest employees and most LUVing crews once rejected me to be one of their flight attendant ‘new hires.’ I had never done so well in a flight attendant interview, up to that point, or had never had so much fun in one, and yet, a week or so later, I received the email. I owe Southwest Airlines a long overdue ‘Thank you.’ I need to thank that company for completely changing my life trajectory, direction, and flight path. A long overdue ‘Thank You’ to Southwest Airlines for NOT hiring me at the Flight Attendant interview