Also called: Lead Service Attendant, Sleeping Car Attendant, Train Attendant
Serves passengers on long-distance and intercity trains: the café car, dining car, and sleeper cars.
On a two-day trip from Chicago to California, you make up beds in sleeper cars, serve meals, and help passengers. You sleep on the train too, and see the Rockies out the window.
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Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
High school diploma, about 0 years after high school. High school diploma and railroad training.
Ways in: On-the-job training. Training cost: Get paid while you train.
Majors to look at: Hospitality.
Growing about average. Depends on passenger rail funding.
Low risk for 10 years. AI handles reservations; serving meals and caring for passengers on board stays human.
Age 21+. One way to start: Apply on Amtrak's careers site for onboard service jobs First: Amtrak's paid onboard service training (several weeks); serving alcohol needs 21
Classes: Culinary arts, Speech.
Official data: O*NET occupation 53-6061.
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