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Life @ SeaThe Basic Seaman’s Life

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Job Opportunities and Job Experiences as a Seaman

Life @ Sea

Working at sea is a very exciting experience; your life style will be entirely different, you will become an international professional who work overseas together with different nationalities. 

You are required to work overseas for 6 to 8 months and be home for 2 months leave, which will be paid in lieu before leave commence. You will learn very quickly how to manage your work, cargoes and crew. You will meet many friends from all over the world. 

Living Lifestyle Your living lifestyle will be totally different. Because

you are required to work overseas for 6 to 8 months and be home for 2 months leave, which will be paid in lieu before leaving commence. That is great! The quality of time you spend with your family will be much better. You can go for a tour around the world when you are on home leave. You see your family every day, taking your wife for shopping; taking your kids to school and other activities you are interested in.

Then you concentrate on your work on another ship for 6 to 8 months again.

From time to time, you will fly everywhere to join ships by plane, depending upon which company you work with. You will become a real international professional.

 

Working on board, you don’t have to pay for any utilities. But you have to tidy your own cabin (room) and wash your own clothing. You don’t have to pay for you meals except for your own softdrinks or beer you consume. Water, food, tea or coffee are all free. You will dine at the officer mess room (restaurant), buffet lunch and a proper dinner at night. However, you have to work and live onboard the ship with the same group of people, no matter whether you like them or not. You really have to learn how to respect others and get along with different people on board.

 

Leisure Life One may wonder whether ship’s crew may actually go

ashore and tour around the world. Of course, seaman can go ashore when they are off. On some kind of vessels, when the ship is secured alongside for about a week, seaman may go ashore for shopping, dining and having good time. However, if you work on board a container ship, where the ship is secured alongside the berth for only hours, one may not be able to go ashore at all. It really depends upon which company or which type of ship you work with.

 

One may also ask what you may do when you are not working; there are a lot of entertainments you may find on board, which will be mentioned in details below. Seafarers can have time relax in the officer’s bar, watch a movie or relax in their cabin etc.

 

Working Life Being an officer on board, you are required to work

basically 8 hrs a day every day. You will have other work to do according to your rank. Such as the third officer, who will look after the lifesaving and firefighting equipment on board after his or her watch. The Second Officer looks after the the navigational equipment and acts as the door on board. And the Chief Officer will look after or leave ports, you may be required to work twelve hours a day depending upon the type of ship trade.

 

Social LifeDuring the off duty time, you are free to do anything as you

want, like visit the landmark or famous places. It will depend on which type of ship you are sailing with. Normally, ship will stay in port for few days, but if you work on a container ship, you may only have few hours, so you may not have much time to go ashore.

Living on board is similar to those living ashore, and all can be found on board. People don’t have to go out for cinema or food, everything is free of charge on board.

 

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