What do I Do?

[leighdu]

Hi, im not looking for a job at the momenet, i was looking for some advice.

Im 18, living in Perth Australia and currently doing a Diploma of Marine Studies which involves alot of the coxswains ticket and some marine biology, i will be finished it at the end of the year and was looking for some advice on how to achive one of my goals for a next few years.

I want to try and travel around the Mediterranean and do any type of work involving the ocean and boats, maybe working on super/mega yachts, ecotourism ect... everyones dream job

Anyone have any advice on what i should do at the end of the year when i finish my course? I think i need some sort of international ship safty ticket to work in the med?
For the first year i think ill just try to be working on any dive/fish/ecotourism charters to get some experience.
Was just wondering what would help me more to get to my goal.

Thanks

[JustinF]

I have been in your shoes before.

If your serious about relocating for work, which can be a lot less glamorous then it sounds, you might want to consider focusing your attention on one area.

What I mean is decide what exactly you want to do, and focus your efforts on making yourself a desirable candidate for that position.

Instead of thinking along the line of anything within the fields you mentioned, how about just one of them you would prefer, or you think your could accomplish. Then start getting experiance in Australia, it will make it a lot easier. You are lucky that you have age on your side. Many employers would prefer to hire single young people (early to mid 20's) as they are generally the least expensive to hire. They don't have a family to bring along, have a little experiance (enough to not reuire signifigant amounts of training) and are usually quite trainable. Not stuck in thier ways after 10+ years in thier feild. They are also generall willing to work for lower wages. Something you would have to consider.

Don't get me wrong, you can find a job that pays a LOT (thats why most of us are in the middle east) but you make sacrifices for it. No late nights at the club chasing ladies in Saudi Arabia!

On the bright side, spending a few years of your life doing something you love, traveling the globe on the companies tab, and hopefully comming out of it with enough savings to buy a home or start a business, or both, is worth it to most of us out here living our dream.

I guess I should add, I am a Canadian living in Saudi Arabia.

Good luck along your journey!

[land shark]

then again you could enter the greater food service industry

[Almostafish]

Try for an STCW 95 Officer of the watch unlimited ticket and the world will be your oyster. Mega yachts are ok to work on but its not a dream job in any way..

Good luck.

[leighdu]

thanks for all the advice,
Almoostafish i think im a bit more interested in where the work can take me i wanna travel around a bit and being out on the ocean is a big bonus for me.

[johnny]

Grab your back pack get to Palma de Mallorca / Mallorca / Baleric Islands / Spain.

A real cross roads for travellers working on any kind of boats, there also you can get your STCW 95 ticket which is a start.

check www.bluewateryachting.com

[Almostafish]

Bloody hell! Thats the first time anyone has called a OOW unlimited ticket a start!! 3 years at sea and in collage.. Oral assesments by the MCA and then that gives you the ticket to be in charge of a watch on any SHIP in the world..eg the QE2 etc

If you want to have a craic, meet some nice looking women and party in nice places and drive pretty plastic things then go the Yacht'y route and have a laugh. Get use to the smell of brasso though. If not go commercial and get a ticket that will keep you in nice cars, houses and toys for the rest of your life.


Enjoy it all!

[johnny]

Almostafish,


i am not calling an OOW ticket a start !!! i stated he could start getting his STCW 95 (courses) ... I.E. stcw basic training, stcw sea survival, stcw general ship knowledge, stcw first aid etc... etc.... all this is available in Palma de Mallorca / Antibes / Warash.


I resent your mis-guiding, generalized, opinionated view on the professional multi billion dollar yachting industry, yes deckhands will smell brasso, pretty girls yes, pretty plastic things that you can drive.. well ,...HMMMM some girls do carry them in there hand bags. Salaries can be extremely high,..so if you are so materialistically minded you could have more than enough cars and houses in several countries. Travelling unlimited. Could be a dream job for somebody on this planet

[Almostafish]

Hey Johnny

Have you worked in both worlds? Or just on Small yachts and Gin palace's?

[johnny]

Originally Posted by Almostafish

Or just on Small yachts and Gin palace's?

you continue to generalize and sarcastically insult ( referring to the rep you gave me),.. i see no reason to further discuss this topic with a negative narrow minded person.

thanks and good luck.

[Almostafish]

So thats a No then..

Its just that on your profile you say you are a Captain.. Now to call your self that nowaday's you need to have Masters unlimited ticket been a OOW/2 nd mate/XO You could well be a Skipper perhaps?

Yes I am sarcastic but you call your self something, that judging by your posts your not, and I have met too many leisure " Captains " to have that great a repect for them.

Their are always exceptions to this and to all the ticketed Masters out there who drive leisure craft for a living I mean no offence.


Bryn Spencer,
Negative narrow minded person but with a Masters ticket

PS: Leighdu sorry for going off topic, I bite to easy! Have fun in your chosen path and enjoy your self what ever you do.

[johnny]

says one master( class 4) to another



peace sailor, lets go shoot some DENTEX together you can drive the zodiac,....in Spain of course.

[Almostafish]

Sounds good!

[leighdu]

thanks for the advice guys, i was thinking it might help to learn another language or atleast the basics, what is a common language(other than english..) that is used around the med?

[island_sands]

Spanish! you can get by in portugal, andorra and italy if you know spanish