OT: occupation of BA FTers
Aug 13, 2018, 2:44 am
#1276
Join Date: Sep 2015
Posts: 41
Grabbing all the credit card cashback airmile rewards and spending bonus etc. helps too.
2) I am a student studying Politics (Bsc). What do you guys think are the best career options for me which would involve a lot of travelling, apart from the obvious. (diplomatic service)
Or maybe work for yourself from a laptop and you can be anywhere in the world whenever you want.
Last edited by ohit; Aug 13, 2018 at 2:59 am
Aug 13, 2018, 4:27 am
#1279
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: London, Strathaven
Programs: BA (Gold). Various other statuses
Posts: 1,466
Yes, should have mentioned that I am very happy to be out of the rat race of the City of London. Moving to Scotland where I definitely will not be doing anything to do with finance, if I do anything at all. One of the new experiences will be flying Jet 2 from Glasgow!
Aug 13, 2018, 2:04 pm
#1280
Join Date: Sep 2017
Location: EDI
Programs: BAEC Silver, Marriott Silver
Posts: 11
I have been reading posts on this forum for a couple of months and you guys seem very intelligent classy and well educated compared to AAnother forum. Out of curiousity:
1) I would like to know the most popular occupation of BA Fters that enables you guys to travel so widely.
1) I would like to know the most popular occupation of BA Fters that enables you guys to travel so widely.
Most travel is business (in Y) and would agree with previous posters that business travel is not all it's cracked up to be.
Aug 13, 2018, 4:05 pm
#1281
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: LHR, LGW
Programs: BAEC
Posts: 3,435
Myself & a partner have just started a online business in social care. Looking to grow the business (advice appreciated?!) and hope for some flying other than leisure. I will drop to bronze sadly! But will try for Silver as soon as financially possible!
Aug 14, 2018, 7:35 am
#1284
Join Date: Jul 2018
Programs: BA executive club Gold, United milage plus Gold
Posts: 58
I work in software development in New York. I need to travel frequently to see elderly family in India - will be traveling for the third time this year in a couple of months. These are grueling trips, 24 hours door-to-door so I'm looking for ways to make them a little less uncomfortable. I was previously mainly a United/Lufthansa traveller but having discovered BA WT+ I am much happier.
Aug 14, 2018, 7:53 am
#1285
Join Date: May 2010
Location: UK
Posts: 5,380
I work in software development in New York. I need to travel frequently to see elderly family in India - will be traveling for the third time this year in a couple of months. These are grueling trips, 24 hours door-to-door so I'm looking for ways to make them a little less uncomfortable. I was previously mainly a United/Lufthansa traveller but having discovered BA WT+ I am much happier.
Aug 14, 2018, 8:27 am
#1286
Join Date: Jul 2018
Programs: BA executive club Gold, United milage plus Gold
Posts: 58
Aug 14, 2018, 9:02 am
#1287
Join Date: May 2010
Location: UK
Posts: 5,380
I'm a psychotherapist, and I referenced this video in a CPD presentation last year about the Indian Oedipus Complex - in short as I expect you recognise, in Indian culture the mother traditionally holds a more revered position in the family, and the oedipal drives don't go upward (eg the son wishing to 'kill' the father in order to have the mother to himself) but instead they go downward (eg the mother 'kills' the husband/father in order to have the son to herself). In the video you can see the dominance of the mother (it is told from her point of view, and much less from the son who actually flies BA), and she makes an amusing dismissive reference to her husband right at the end, "...even his father was there..."
Last edited by Flexible preferences; Aug 14, 2018 at 9:09 am
