Hey gCaption, Does anyone know of a company hiring Able Seaman? I need some work asap. I’ll work anywhere but I much rather work in the Great Lakes. My only limitation is I DON’t do tugs…
You need work “asap” as an able seaman, preferably on the GL’s, but you dont do tugs… if you havent noticed, more and more of the work up there is on pinned units, some of which are very nice. All the fresh faced fucks come on here asking for work, crying for jobs but its always on your terms, how you want things, which in the maritime world is far from the way things operate. Your an A.B “limited” which tells me right off your most likely on your 1st/2nd issue of your MMD, take what you can get because the good jobs are hard to come by right now.
You don’t say where you are, but be prepared to take whatever work you can get. What’s so bad about tugs?
Probably had a bad experience with a mean captain or engineer who wouldn’t tolerate a lazy slob, and/or know it all. Tends to scare them off.
Probably so. On a tug you have to work.
It’s funny how often you need to explain that to people
I see a real shortage of go-getters who want to work and learn and an over abundance of bellyachers coming onboard.
Part of it is that these guys start out at far too much money. They think they must be special because they are being paid so much money. It use to be that guys went to sea because they had a connection to the sea and wanted to be seaman. Now there are a lot of idiots who are not seamen, and not even interested in becoming seamen. They are just doing it because it’s three times more money than they can get anywhere else.
Amen brother. It’s tragic.
The extinct professional deckhand. Either you have a career OS, or someone who wanted to be captain yesterday.
90% of the guys here are career OS who believe they are gods great gift to tugboating and the company cant go on without them. An AB/200 and Stcw barely gets you in the door alot of places as a deckhand anymore, and then you see this shit posted and i shake my head.
I am shaking my head, but maybe he can get a job and go away:
http://www.maritime.edu/apps/jobshopper/findjobs.cfm?jobID=17496
[QUOTE=z-drive;164323]I am shaking my head, but maybe he can get a job and go away:
http://www.maritime.edu/apps/jobshopper/findjobs.cfm?jobID=17496[/QUOTE]
This AB job at $225 a day is about what these new AB kids should be making. An AB needs to be really good and hardworking to be worth over $300 a day.
We would be better off hiring guys as OS at $100 a day, than we are hiring them now at these ridiculous pay levels that some companies pay. An OS should really want it, and be there for the privilege of having the opportunity to become a seaman and advance, not with the expectation that he is going to earn a good living as an OS.
All true… But when the oil companies insurance people tell them they need all the deckhands to have at least a 200 GRT Master license it changes the game.
[QUOTE=tugsailor;164331]This AB job at $225 a day is about what these new AB kids should be making. An AB needs to be really good and hardworking to be worth over $300 a day.
We would be better off hiring guys as OS at $100 a day, than we are hiring them now at these ridiculous pay levels that some companies pay. An OS should really want it, and be there for the privilege of having the opportunity to become a seaman and advance, not with the expectation that he is going to earn a good living as an OS.[/QUOTE]
We would be better off using unpaid interns who need the seatime. Then we know they really want it.
I agree but on the other hand you have kids who pay for 4 years of school who in some cases don’t want it either. Especially the nitwits who never even get a sailing job.
[QUOTE=z-drive;164346]I agree but on the other hand you have kids who pay for 4 years of school who in some cases don’t want it either. Especially the nitwits who never even get a sailing job.[/QUOTE] Those kids aren’t paying. Mommy and Daddy are footing the bill.
along with joe taxpayer! State schools, Kp, defaulted loans.
All that talk and only one person was actually helpful. thanks alot to the guy the droped the job posting. I definitely appreciate it.
[QUOTE=Jarrell Holmes;164477]All that talk and only one person was actually helpful. thanks alot to the guy the droped the job posting. I definitely appreciate it.[/QUOTE]
Its all about the presentation. If you havent read the rest of the forum, life sucks for alot of people right now, a few more months and i can buy 2-3 low milage trucks and a boat full of Atv’s cheap south of I-10.
Just seemed kind of shitty to immediately out of the gate cry for work but then state “NO TUGS”. Ive helped 2 green guys off this forum find jobs and both of them are awesome guys moving up the foodchain @ tug companies, its a small world and you murdered any helpfulness in the first 3 sentences just by being a prick.
Tugs are where the money and security are at these days.