Well, if you keep insisting on pointing to the content of my site (which is not the official reason I was given for my termination), then take a look at this site... make sure you read his "Online Life." Is this the image Delta Air Lines wishes to portray?
http://hometown.aol.com/__121b_sQWyH...CYJ+HlVpb8efs=
I haven't read enough of the blog or this thread to know how long you were an FA. It's the holiday season so I'll take time from sitting here in a hotel room and toss some advice.
The first tidbit is . . . recall the guys in First Class who had some age on them. I know the ones you remember were the drunks or the perverts, but try to recall the others who were quiet and "normal" and worked during the flight. They are pretty senior in their companies and they have seen it all and you are reading a lot of advice from them right here. In fact, the guys with the most miles are likely to be the most senior and have the best advice for you. You're damn lucky to have them willing to offer it. It's advice you probably can't get anywhere else so easily. Also, unlike your lawyers, they have no personal money to make from you at all and the advice is completely impartial.
They are telling you to move on. "The best revenge is living well." My 2 cents worth is . . . The Best Revenge Is Living Well seems, in my experience, to have no exceptions.
After these lawyers are done peeling their 30-40% contingency fee off of whatever Delta tosses at you to make you go away, what do you think happens? You're 29. You can't retire on whatever is left. Have a look at bankrate.com and see that savings accounts are paying less than 1%. That's $1000 a year on $100,000, assuming you can get that much left over after your lawyers do their gouging.
I suspect the publicity and whatnot is pretty exciting right now, but you have to try to look past it. They are using you to fill time on their shows. You're entertainment, and you're not a professional at it so it won't last.
Andy Warhol said "In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes." I don't mean to be mean, but your clock is about run out -- and others have told you this here.
My advice, get all this shut down. Send all the lawyers and TV people on their way and look for work. Whatever cash you can get from this is going to cost you in a lot of ways for a long time. Just forget it. Move on.
Good luck.