# Just getting into the industry **URL:** \ **Category:** Maritime Employment\ **Created:** [December 28, 2021, 6:45pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/just-getting-into-the-industry/61800 "2021-12-28T18:45:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![newtothis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@newtothis](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/newtothis)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2021, 6:45pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/just-getting-into-the-industry/61800/1 "2021-12-28T18:45:17Z")
Just made a change and starting in the industry. I’ve heard different things about different companies. Any insights on best places to look and where to avoid? ---
**Author:** ![Menizzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Menizzi](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Menizzi)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2021, 8:16pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/just-getting-into-the-industry/61800/2 "2021-12-28T20:16:19Z")
People are gonna tell you to fuck off I’m just letting you know. You don’t post where you’re from what your goals are you are so incredibly vague it’s not even funny you really need to just search these forums first. In fact these people get really angry when people like you post because they see it as you want every thing spoon fed to you. ---
**Author:** ![SeaEagle](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/seaeagle/32/17788_2.png) [@SeaEagle](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/SeaEagle)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2021, 10:02pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/just-getting-into-the-industry/61800/3 "2021-12-28T22:02:28Z")
Agree, read prior posts. ---
**Author:** ![ReformedSailor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/reformedsailor/32/19539_2.png) [@ReformedSailor](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ReformedSailor)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2021, 10:20pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/just-getting-into-the-industry/61800/4 "2021-12-28T22:20:02Z")
Good luck! ---
**Author:** ![tugsailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9adbd/32.png) [@tugsailor](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/tugsailor)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2021, 10:23pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/just-getting-into-the-industry/61800/5 "2021-12-28T22:23:19Z")
Someone should resurrect some of those five year old threads about Knocking on Doors. I seem to recall @Jemplayer posting a helpful Read This First about finding a job. ---
**Author:** ![Ctony](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/ctony/32/189_2.png) [@Ctony](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Ctony)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2021, 11:18pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/just-getting-into-the-industry/61800/6 "2021-12-28T23:18:20Z")
> [@Menizzi](#): > > In fact these people get really angry when people like you post because they see it as you want every thing spoon fed to you. I can’t remember the last blow out we’ve had here over that. I think we are overdue. Popcorn is at the ready. ---
**Author:** ![Menizzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Menizzi](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Menizzi)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2021, 11:20pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/just-getting-into-the-industry/61800/7 "2021-12-28T23:20:40Z")
You know now that you are talking about pop corn. I do in fact have pop corn that i can pop. I really want some now as a snack as I ran out of chips. ---
**Author:** ![SeaEagle](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/seaeagle/32/17788_2.png) [@SeaEagle](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/SeaEagle)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2021, 2:03am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/just-getting-into-the-industry/61800/8 "2021-12-29T02:03:17Z")
In all seriousness “New to this” nobody is distracting you from a new career, much of your questions can be answered in more than a few prior threads over the years.Do your homework .Massive info from experienced mariners.Hope this helps as new talent is always welcome. ---
**Author:** ![anchorman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bbce88/32.png) [@anchorman](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/anchorman)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2021, 2:19am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/just-getting-into-the-industry/61800/9 "2021-12-29T02:19:03Z")
I hope you covered all of these points before making your move - just to ensure there were no surprises with your decision. Particularly for those aspiring to be a drillship Captain, do this first beforehand… If you like it, you’re in the right place. Buy a dumpster, paint it gray and live in it for 6 months straight. Run all of the piping and wires inside your house on the outside of the walls. Pump 10 inches of nasty, crappy water into your basement, then pump it out, clean up, and paint the basement “deck gray.” Have your oldest kid perform a weekly disassembly and inspection of your lawnmower. Yell at your neighbor if he walks outside without a hardhat and boots. Have your family eat the raunchiest Mexican food you can find for three days straight, then yell at them for spending too much work time in the bathroom. Make your family complete an OJT before they operate any appliances in your home (i.e. Dishwasher operator, blender technician, etc.). Tell your wife that when the car is moving your in charge, while stopped or in park she’s in charge but if it catches on fire while it’s parked your in charge. Tell your son to empty all the garbage bins in your house, and sweep your driveway 3 times a day, whether they need it or not. Give the task a stupid name like “policing main deck” or “AM trash run”. Repaint your entire house once a month. Disconnect all your neighbors’ phones and install a phone booth on the street. Spend $20,000 on a satellite system for your TV, but only watch Fox News and the Country Music station. Have the family vote on which tv channels to watch and then pick different ones. Sew reflective strips to the front of all your shirts. Expand your vocabulary. For this task watching Larry the Cable Guy is the best way to git 'r done. Reprogram all your phones so that you have to dial 99 the number and # to call anyone outside your neighborhood. When you do call wait 3 seconds after every question before speaking. Needle gun the aluminum siding on your house after your neighbors have gone to bed. At 10:15 Sunday morning when your children are in bed, run into their room with a megaphone, and shout at the top of your lungs “Fire, fire in the galley, ALERT team muster at…” Buy $50,000 worth of radio equipment “in case” there is an emergency and hire a qualified radio operator to “man the station”… then make them pay your bills, arrange your travel and answer all your phone calls. Make your family menu a week ahead of time and do so without checking the pantry and refrigerator. Paint every room in your house powder blue. When your daughter asks for an iPod fire up the old commodore 64 computer, make her type out the request, deny it 3 times, then call fedex and tell then to keep it in their warehouse for 3 months after it arrives. When your kids come home with A’s on their report card buy them a camouflage hat with flames down the side and the family name embroidered across the brim. Yell at your wife if she cooks anything but fried chicken for lunch on sunday Call the restaurant five hours before arriving and then tell the cook to start heating up the steaks Each Christmas when your aunt jane and uncle jim visit make them stay on the porch until they have watched a 2 hour video of yourself pointing out all the fire extinguishers and smoke alarms in your house. Make your kids pay 50 cents for each soda they drink. Never call a local repair man when your stove breaks. Instead call someone in the UK and pay for their flight. When they arrive call the taxi company and give them strict orders not to pick the repairman up until the stove is fixed. Sleep on the shelf in your closet. Replace the closet door with a curtain. Have you wife whip open the curtain about 3 hours after you go to sleep. She should then shine a flashlight in your eyes and mumble “Sorry, wrong rack.” Designate a room in the house as “The Control Room” then make your kids sit their in front of a computer screen for 12 hours. Tell them that if anything turns red they could cause the family millions of dollars. Tell your neighbor to call you when ever they see a thunderstorm in your area. Put lube oil in your humidifier and set it on high. Leave the lawn mower running in your living room eight hours a day. Every other month buy green or red marine primer and put it in a paint sprayer. Have your 2 year old spray it over the roof of your house onto your neighbor’s car. Ignore his complaints. Head to the local dive bar and ask the first retired guy you see to sit in your home office scratching his nuts. Make him a plaque reading “company man” and tell him to “remind” you daily about every squeaky floor, dripping faucet, late mail deliveries… Tell him to invite his friends over and when they show up move your kids into the garage so they have a nice bed to sleep in. After shopping rent a cherry picker offload the groceries. Each morning jot down the wind speed/direction, barometer reading and the amount of fluids in your hot water heater, gas tank, lawn mower… convert the figures you get into whatever unit of measurement you did not use and write it down in 6 different places. Have your kid monitor the police scanner 24 hours a day "just in case there’s an emergency. Pay the editor of your son’s middle school newspaper an undisclosed amount to deliver his paper by helicopter to you each morning. When he arrives throw some leftovers into a Styrofoam box and offer it to him. Find a bridge simulator with 360 degree views, enroll in ship handling class then spend 1/2 of your time looking behind you. Spend the other half of the time on the phone explaining why the main deck lights are out, why you don’t know/care what the water depth is and performing unit conversions in response to the question “Can you give me that in something I can use??” …do this one every hour. Once a year throw a huge bar-b-q. Buy crawfish, steak and shimp then overcook them and offer your guests only O’Douls and soda pop. Go to your local elementary school and ask the principal to send you a weekly list of the stupidest things the kindergarteners have done that week. Call a meeting with your family every Monday and read the list with a straight face. Place toohpicks, picante sauce and a can of Tony Chachere’s on your kitchen table. Call 911 and tell them to send a helicopter each time your son falls off his bike. Eat only at all-you-can-eat buffet restaurants that specialize in fried foods. Bonus points if you have a view of the cooking area from your table and the place primarily employs nose-pickers and butt-scratchers. Twice a day (or more if possible) get everyone together in as small a room as possible (a closet or bathroom should do) and have a meeting to listen to someone tell you what you did all day. Bonus points for reiterating statements multiple times (i.e. “Like Joe says safety is…”). Buy a trash compactor, but use it only once a week. Store the garbage on the other side of your bathtub. Walk around town with safety checklists. Each time you find a city employee doing something stupid write it down on an index card, tell the person he screwed up then give the card to the mayor to read off at the town council meeting. Explain to your wife why you don’t know how to calculate tides 250miles offshore. Once the lightbulb comes on spend at least one hour answering questions like “Well why do you have a tide table book if it’s useless?”, “Can’t you get the computer to tell you?” and “Don’t you have a depth sounder like on a bass boat?” Set your kids alarm clock to go off at 10:15 every Sunday morning. Make them jump up and get dressed as fast as you can making sure they’re wearing a plastic hat and metal in their shoes. Have them run out into the backyard and uncoil the garden hose. Install a toilet in every room then leave your door open so that everyone walking down the hallway knows you had chili-con-carne for lunch. Each time your family does something you think is unsafe or just plain dumb take a digital photo of it and send it out to everyone you know. Install a fluorescent lamp under the coffee table and then get under it and read books. Give your wife a CB radio and tell her to call you each time she turns the car, fills up the gas tank or it starts to rain. Install speakers and a telephone in every room of the house. When you want to talk to your kids announce it over the speakers and give them the phone number of your room. Repeat at lease once to make sure they heard you, Take hourly readings on your water and your electric meters. Go to your children’s school and yell at the teacher for allowing them to use blue ink on their homework. Surround yourself with people you would not choose to be with. Suggested choices are those who: chain smoke, fart loudly and often, snore like a steam locomotive on an uphill grade. Also, they must: complain incessantly, seldom shower and/or brush their teeth. Lastly, they must use expletives in speech like children use sugar on cereal. In-laws will do nicely. Raise the thresholds and lower the top sills of your front and back doors so that you either trip or bang your head every time you pass through one of them. Every so often, throw the cat in the pool and shout “Man overboard, starboard side” Then run into the house and sweep all the pots and dishes off the counter. Yell at the wife and kids for not having the kitchen “stowed for sea.” ---
**Author:** ![SeaEagle](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/seaeagle/32/17788_2.png) [@SeaEagle](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/SeaEagle)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2021, 2:26am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/just-getting-into-the-industry/61800/10 "2021-12-29T02:26:49Z")
Haven’t had a chuckle lately, that one did it sir. Once I found the right spot, (took a while) never worried about the candid but truthful descriptions you portrayed. Been there. ---
**Author:** ![ReformedSailor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/reformedsailor/32/19539_2.png) [@ReformedSailor](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ReformedSailor)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2021, 2:52am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/just-getting-into-the-industry/61800/11 "2021-12-29T02:52:27Z")
Haha nailed it… ---
**Author:** ![PDCMATE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@PDCMATE](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/PDCMATE)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2021, 4:28am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/just-getting-into-the-industry/61800/12 "2021-12-29T04:28:12Z")
I guess Noble finally cracked that egg. ---
**Author:** ![Capt\_Phoenix](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/capt_phoenix/32/281_2.png) [@Capt\_Phoenix](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Capt_Phoenix)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2021, 5:28am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/just-getting-into-the-industry/61800/13 "2021-12-29T05:28:27Z")
> [@newtothis](#): > > I’ve heard different things about different companies. All companies suck. > [@newtothis](#): > > Any insights on best places to look and where to avoid? Look on land, avoid anyplace with boats. ---
**Author:** ![Reduxalicious](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/reduxalicious/32/51552_2.png) [@Reduxalicious](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Reduxalicious)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2021, 8:08am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/just-getting-into-the-industry/61800/14 "2021-12-29T08:08:10Z")
> [@newtothis](#): > > Just made a change and starting in the industry. I’ve heard different things about different companies. Any insights on best places to look and where to avoid? “Just made a change and starting in the industry.” A terrible decision, really. (Ok I’m just jaded many guys still love to sail) “I’ve heard different things about different companies” What Companies, what things? “Any insights on best places to look and where to avoid?” I can’t help you because your post is so vague, You say you’re starting in the industry and want insight. Insight where? Lakes? Brown Water? Harbor Tugs? Deep Sea? Oil Patch? Yachts? ---
**Author:** ![beringsea56](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/beringsea56/32/11510_2.png) [@beringsea56](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/beringsea56)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2022, 1:13am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/just-getting-into-the-industry/61800/15 "2022-01-05T01:13:25Z")
Thats just about perfect I can’ stop lauhing i’s so true