KP 3rd mates are heavily recruited by Transocean for DPO jobs. In most instances they have plane tickets waiting for you the day after graduation. Promotion to senior DPO usually happens around the same time your eligible for your 2nd mate upgrade. That fancy new training ship they got with DP systems is paying off big time. What a coup for Matsuda and Force.
Thanks, hopefully instill get in to the academy if I don’t are there other options in advancing a maritime career because if I don’t get in KP it won’t be the end of my aspirations for naval adventures?
[QUOTE=Fraqrat;90116]KP 3rd mates are heavily recruited by Transocean for DPO jobs. In most instances they have plane tickets waiting for you the day after graduation. Promotion to senior DPO usually happens around the same time your eligible for your 2nd mate upgrade. That fancy new training ship they got with DP systems is paying off big time. What a coup for Matsuda and Force.[/QUOTE]
You got to be kidding me. After 97 posts, and you answer HIS DP question?
Wheres the sarcasm? Wheres the insults? Wheres the hazing? Or was a question actually answered?
Amazing.
[QUOTE=“rofahy;90119”]Thanks, hopefully instill get in to the academy if I don’t are there other options in advancing a maritime career because if I don’t get in KP it won’t be the end of my aspirations for naval adventures?[/QUOTE]
There are six other maritime academies you could go to as well.
Or gasp one could hawse pipe their way up…
The horror, the HORROR!!!
How do I get rid of this thread atrocity? The more I look at it the more embarrassing it is.
[QUOTE=SouthernBornOhioBurned;90259]How do I get rid of this thread atrocity? The more I look at it the more embarrassing it is.[/QUOTE]
You can’t…you now own it forever but luckily, we here on gCaptain have a rather short memory for these idiocies provided you cease and desist posting anymore detritus like you did here.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD…DO NOT BECOME THE NEXT TMACADET1!
Notice how our memory for him and OICUR12 as well lives on and on long after they are dead and gone. Just a note of caution to the wary and wise.
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FOR THE LOVE OF GOD…DO NOT BECOME THE NEXT TMACADET1!
Notice how our memory for him and OICUR12 as well lives on and on long after they are dead and gone. Just a note of caution to the wary and wise.[/QUOTE]
My next thread was going to be about my love and appreciation of quasi-military regiments.
Then I was going to demand that you guys to validate my opinion.
That was teh plan. TMACadet#2
For me anyway, Half the posts on this thread simply read:
“This message is hidden because SouthernBornOhioBurned is on your ignore list.”
What a great nonsense filter.
[QUOTE=“c.captain;89765”]I keep hearing a itty bitty teeny tiny squeak coming from somewhere. Does anyone else hear it?
Must be one of the floorboards loose or something?[/QUOTE]
Amen to that…
[QUOTE=SouthernBornOhioBurned;89771]Not saying I do. But to say that offshore mineral exploration and exploitation has a “horrible” outlook is insane. There is not a single industry that is “thriving” currently EXCEPT petroleum/LNG.
I probably could get into KP if I moved back to South Carolina, which wouldnt be that hard. But it would go against pretty much everything I stand for. I NEVER want to suck the Federal cash cow’s udder. I worked for a state park and I was utterly disgusted with the waste. My entire family is comprised of defense contractors and I cant stand their reluctance to give up even a little of federal funding. So much waste, and that includes the service academies.
The Citadel and the maritime academies are good examples of states doing stuff much better.
Im a Junior who is graduating in four months. What is with some of you Hawsepipers? You guys are like the old men that refuse to admit that the way you climbed to the top is no longer possible. I hope that one day that maybe, just maybe, things would return to what they were 25-40 years ago-when somebody didnt have to spend tens of thousands of dollars to get a piece of paper from the “Academic” cartel.[/QUOTE]
Dude, sounds like the “hawsepipers” paved the way to ALL that[U][I][B] think[/B][/I][/U] they want to sail. 30 years of sailing in the GoM/East Coast/West Coast/Brazil/Trinidad/West Africa, have taught me way more than any College could. EVER…Whatever you decide to do after High School, NEVER NEVER NEVER let school get in the way of an education. Respect is earned. Way back, our long run was 4 hours out, and the vessels were small enough to put on the back deck of my current vessel. Boat handling was a MUST. We had very little power. 1 bow thruster and no stern thruster. No, we just pull up,thrust in. “Oh my gosh” my fwd stern thruster just went out…what am I to do. Computers programers from the new generation will NEVER know what it is like to conduct the simple ships biz, cause they weren’t there. PERIOD. Best of luck to all who enter. My days at sea are getting small. A few years from now, I will be watching all the DRAMA from CNN when bumper boats start, due to youngsters and or computers crash out!!! That is only MY opinion, I could be wrong!!!
Thanks for the morning laugh,That was great,Squeak Squeak,haha,but read your post here ,you have it dead on,C.Captain
All i’ll say just to beat a dead horse is when i was in high school they would hire almost anyone with papers off the street in NY and put you on a boat if you knew your shit. Then layoffs came, then they hired again, then they slowed down, sped up, slowed down, who knows. Needless to say job outlook 5 year from now is that there will be jobs wherever but how many who knows. If you work while a student (cadet ship/co-op) and chip some rust, clean, cook, and get dirty with an attitude that you’re willing to learn while you’re out there your job prospects upon graduation will be a lot better. At least this is how it was for myself and my classmates.