Cleaning strum boxes after a cargo of wheat. Chasing tampons in a vacuum toilet system, cleaning a blocked grease trap from the galley. I will stop here some maybe eating lunch.
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A livestock carrier is just like all passenger/ropax ships but without drivers/trucks or passengers but with livestock/cattle aboard. The staff/shepherds looking after the livestock/cattle love the animals. They are fed and watered and their cabins are cleaned. What else can the cattle expect?
Iâd say being a mate / deckhand on a tug towing a railcar barge. Jacking up the cars and lashing them down is hard work & you just hope that when you are finished itâs not your watch.
Conveyorman on a self-unloading bulker on the Great Lakes. Working in the dark, dank, humid 1000 foot tunnels along the keel, coal and taconite dust coating everything, greasing hundreds of rollers and mending conveyor belts, typically alone. The pay isnât spectacular, the days are long, and a guy can go in white as ghost and come out black as night, day after day.
This is depressing. How about the best job youâve ever had?
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Australia has quite a few feral camels that might even be exported to the Middle East. Reckon those ships come back emptyâŚ
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The Burmese slaves who work on Thai fishing boats probably have one of the worst jobs on a boat anywhere in the world.
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Thereâs a great book called âOutlaw Oceanâ (I think) that explores this. It was pretty horrific, wildly interesting, and really sad. Although you canât even really call it a job for most of them. Theyâre indentured servants/slaves.
I was once offered a job as 2nd Officer on a catamaran in the arabian sea which was formerly known as HSV-2 SWIFT. The job would have been to ship arms and especially tanks from UAE into the warzone of Yemen, with occaisonal sailings from Djibouti as well. Salary in local currency was being paid into a bank account that should be created in Dubai or somewhere else. Even though the salary was said to be quite acceptable and the rotation was 1:1, I almost immediately rejected the offer. A couple of months later I heard that the ship was struck by some anti-ship missiles off Yemen and burnt out!
You made a good choice not to take that job. One of those type vessels followed my sons ship from Norfolk to Gibralter. Those people took an ass beating. AMO and SIU crew. Plus the navy crew on board. A single missle took out the âSwiftâ.
To add a funny tale the company offering me the job sent me GA-plan of the vessel and some further details on the job but noted as a kind of âwarningâ that the condition of the interior of the vessel wouldnât match my impression of the outside. I guess that the overall living and working conditions must have deteriorated quickly after the management had been transferred from the US Navy to the transport ministry of VAE, if it ever had been good before.