I was jumpseating on my way to Vegas for my Bachelor party this past weekend and the girl next to me started to tell me that her friend is a F/A for CAL and according to her it is "extremely easy to get your three stripes and get hired by an airline as an F/O", I laughed and put my earphones on, thought it was funny.

FWIW, a majority of F/A's appear to be much more miserable than pilots

Also I'll say it again if you live in base and have a good contract you can do ok, I made just over $50,000.00 my 2nd year at Expressjet (Including per diem)