A sponge is a very interesting organism.  When just glancing at it, it doesn’t do much.  But, when you stop and really investigate that little critter, it is doing a lot more than just sitting there.  It is doing the one thing we should all learn to do; the sponge is filtering and absorbing nutrients from out of the environment around it.

The first day of flight attendant school turned out to be very fruitful for me.  Not because of any particular thing the teachers said, but what my fellow students said.  Of course, the first day you are meeting and greeting A LOT of new people, you are introduced to a multitude of past careers and life lessons; and if you play your cards right, you can figure out how to avoid the hard knocks and how to intercept gifts of plenty through others.

As my flight attendant career began I did not drop the habit of absorbing the conversations around me.  Three main places to listen like a hawk: the bus from the employee parking lot to the airport, the plane when you are around your passengers, and always around your crew.  Don’t take everything you hear as gold, but do filter as much as you can.  Okay, so, I guess I am saying learn to be an eavesdropper (if you aren’t already).  BUT I think the benefits of the random, varied, and unimaginable education well outweighs the faux pa of it all.  (Please note: This is not permission to gossip.)

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