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[QUOTE=cmakin;64403]There are more opportunities ashore for engineers than just operating a shoreside power plant or working in a hospital plant. In my personal experience, I have worked ashore as a Class Surveyor and now as an Energy Loss Aduster/Marine Surveyor. There are also many opportunities as ship superintendents, shipyard project managers, Underwriters’ Risk Engineers, etc. I haven’t picked up a wrench professionally since coming ashore, yet I use the skills Iearned almost every day.[/QUOTE]True. There are many more shoreside opportunities for engine guys. Accomplished deckies that want to work shoreside have a limited scope. If you pick deck you’ve pretty much picked the sea.

Having said that, I enjoy working at sea and travelling all over the world and interacting with people of all other cultures. I like the close-knit community that is a ship, my last ship had 27 different nationalities onboard and my job is to make sure they all get along. 180 people you didn’t pick living in a watertight metal box for a month and you are in charge. I love it. I can’t see myself doing anything else.

But we are getting off-topic. Royce, no matter which road you travel Maine Maritime will open up doors for you that you didn’t even know existed.

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[QUOTE=Pete04222;64406]True. There are many more shoreside opportunities for engine guys. Accomplished deckies that want to work shoreside have a limited scope. If you pick deck you’ve pretty much picked the sea.

Having said that, I enjoy working at sea and travelling all over the world and interacting with people of all other cultures. I like the close-knit community that is a ship, my last ship had 27 different nationalities onboard and my job is to make sure they all get along. 180 people you didn’t pick living in a watertight metal box for a month and you are in charge. I love it. I can’t see myself doing anything else.[/QUOTE]

180 people? Must be in offshore construction. That said, I agree with regard to the experience of going to sea, and I treasure the 10 years that I did so. It was a most enlightening way of growing up. It also gives on a very interesting perspective on the rest of the world. I still travel, just not very long distances by sea. For those trips, I take to the air.