When I was planning to join a major airline as a cabin crew 4 years back, I had certain 'conceptions' about what my life is going to be like. The conceptions & expectations were largely affected by media's portrayal & society's perceptions. Of course I knew all of them will not hold true, but six months down the lane it hit me how wide the discrepancies between the expectations I had v/s the reality were. While some are the obvious ones, some not so much.