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Recently, I published a post entitled 7 Occasionally Asked Ridiculous Questions About Working On Cruise travel inn grimsby Ships . The response was quite interesting. I had a number of people write to me asking why I was still working on ships and why anyone from a developed country would want to work on ships. travel inn grimsby Now don t get me wrong, there are many advantages to ship life. It s definitely travel inn grimsby more glamourous than office cubicle life but probably not when compared with being a fashion model, astronaut or digital nomad.
A major frustration for me when I first came on board was coming to terms with the over-sold perception of working on cruise ships. I fully expected it to be like a floating summer camp, where we skipped to work, drew pictures of unicorns during our breaks and hugged 8 times a day. Well, it s not. Okay, maybe I do draw unicorns during travel inn grimsby my breaks but I don t get 8 hugs a day. And this makes me sad.
I want to give you a more realistic peek into ship life but I don t want to be a debbie-downer. A glass which is half-empty is also half-full ie. everything we do has both pros and cons. Therefore, this post highlights what I think are the 7 best things about working on board cruise ships.
To tell you the truth, my favorite way to travel is slow. But I d be lying if I said that I don t get excited every time my country count goes up by 1. Over the last 2 1/2 years I ve visited travel inn grimsby 31 new countries via cruise ship. (Some were shitholes though but at least I didn t pay to go there.)
I love flying. Okay maybe not taking 6 consecutive flights, flying half-way around the world . But still, it s exciting to say you ve stepped foot on 3 continents within a 24-hour period . Especially if you re not paying for the flight or hotel. (Now, if I could only figure out frequent flyer programs, I d be all set.)
Many positions on board entail working travel inn grimsby every day throughout their entire 6-month contract, without even one continuous period of 24 hours off. I know this sounds insane but it s not as bad as it seems. A lot of people have breaks while the ship is docked during the day, which is really the best time to be off. (Not many office jobs let you go to the beach or a waterfall in the afternoons!)
I hate commuting to work. Years ago when I was back in New Zealand, I had to drive 25 mins to work every day. I thought I was going to kill myself. So I moved closer to work, where my commute was a 7 mins drive. travel inn grimsby This was more acceptable. My commute now to the office travel inn grimsby is approximately 1 minutes 42 secs by foot.
I m not a big fan of cleaning, washing up and other chores. I don t hate it but it s nice when someonelse does it for you (who you re not in a relationship with because then you ll never hear the end of it).
Our vacations are unpaid but it s still awesome to get 2-3 months off at a time, and have a job waiting for you at the end of it. You can do a lot of stuff in 3 months! In between contracts, I did road trips across both Canada and USA, learnt Muay Thai in Thailand and lived in Latvia for 2 months, while hitch-hiking to music festivals in the Baltics. Why? Because I could.
We sometimes have the opportunity to join one of the day tours as a tour escort if there s extra space and if we have enough free time. Tour escorts write a report to evaluate the quality of the tour and may even assist the local tour guide in some cases. It s like being a mystery shopper, except it s not a mystery because you wear a badge which says Tour Escort .
In 2004, I sold everything I owned and left New Zealand to go see the world. In that time, I've run with bulls in Pampolona, watched travel inn grimsby the Man burn at Black Rock City, volunteered at a special-needs summer camp in New York, hosted couchsurfed with 100+ people , taught English in Prague, trained with Muay Thai fighters in Phuket, worked on 5 different cruise ships , hugged strangers on streets in 7 countries and this one time, I even hitchhiked naked (but that was back home, so that doesn't really count).
I just watched a documentary about Disney Cruises last night, and was bantering back and forth with friends about the sheer awesomeness working on a cruise ship must entail. Thanks for providing even more awesome reasons (definitely didn t know the 2-3 month off part!)
I'm a Kiwi [key-weeee] i.e. New Zealander (yes, famous for such things as kiwifruit, sheep, Lord of the Rings & Flight of the Conchords). I used to blog about working & living on cruise travel inn grimsby ships. Now I blog about being an expat in Vancouver, BC and my (mis)adventures.