What if you are not able to get out there and pound the pavement because you’re living in jacksonville florida working in a call center Monday through Friday, but you have all your docs and basic safety endorsement. What other options are available besides applying to jobs online?
[QUOTE=ddash79;172885]What if you are not able to get out there and pound the pavement because you’re living in jacksonville florida working in a call center Monday through Friday, but you have all your docs and basic safety endorsement. What other options are available besides applying to jobs online?[/QUOTE]
Where there is a will there is a way. If you really want a job on the water you will have to make time to go look.
“What if you are not able to get out there and pound the pavement because you’re living in jacksonville florida working in a call center Monday through Friday, but you have all your docs and basic safety endorsement. What other options are available besides applying to jobs online?”
You’re only gonna get out what you put in. The best way to get a job in this industry is to apply in person. It can be uncomfortable and, scary spending the time and money to pound the pavement. but if you really want a job in the maritime industry one foot in, one foot out doesn’t cut it!
A lot of these operations don’t advertise job openings, or maybe in the local classifieds. (Dive boats, charter fishing boats, yachts, etc.). Go down to the docks and ask the captains if they need a deck hand. An MMC/twic isn’t necessary but at least having them proves you’re serious about the job and not just gawking/wasting their time.
jax is a decent port… Have you researched say line/boom boats, anything like that, rag-tag rustbucket harbor tug companies? There’s got to be something eventually especially if you can keep your job in the meantime.
I’ll check out jaxport and go there in person to see if I can find out anything. Thank you
[QUOTE=ddash79;172930]I’ll check out jaxport and go there in person to see if I can find out anything. Thank you[/QUOTE]
How’d that go?
Hmmmmm, wow jobs that hard to come by??? I started on charter boats at 12 and over the years I’ve been hired just over the phone. Any rust bucket tug company is easy in my experience…try Beyel Brothers Marine in Cocoa, Florida, they are a derelict bunch that owns my old tug from Coastal Tug and Barge from wayyyyy back. They hire anyone, it’s sea time, but it is what it is.
Now I’m confused. On our boat we have both. Is it that a Qmed holds credentials and oiler does not. Is it he is a “wiper” and not an “oiler”?
[QUOTE=josh.reid24;173306]Now I’m confused. On our boat we have both. Is it that a Qmed holds credentials and oiler does not. Is it he is a “wiper” and not an “oiler”?[/QUOTE]
Don’t know the reason, but it seems mainly on OSVs that an unlicensed assistant is called an oiler, even though technically they are only a wiper…because they don’t have the qmed rating oiler.
Where I used to work it was common for our shoreside support to call the crane riggers oilers too…so go figure.
[QUOTE=josh.reid24;173306]Now I’m confused. On our boat we have both. Is it that a Qmed holds credentials and oiler does not. Is it he is a “wiper” and not an “oiler”?[/QUOTE]
The entry level engine department position is Wiper, equivalent to an OS in the deck department. An Oiler is properly QMED - Oiler, in other words an Oiler is a type of QMED. (There are other QMED ratings but most people just get Oiler.)
It used to be that for someone to be rated as QMED, they needed all the unlicensed engineering ratings. Oiler, FWT, Jr. Engineer, Electrician and Reefer Engineer. Now, with just one endorsement they are QMED’s. Or, I guess now, Able Seafarers, Engine.