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Cruise line jobs, if you have severe seasickness perhaps you should find a job ashore!


Antarctica Cruise: MS Nordkapp in Neko Bay by PhilWolpe (Wikimedia)

Before you have decided to start your career in cruise line jobs, you must make sure that you do not suffer from severe sea-sickness, or feel badly in small and confined spaces, otherwise you should find a job ashore!


Many people would like to start or make their career in cruise line jobs as it is now one of the fastest growing job sectors in the world, however there are personal challenge factors that you must think carefully before sending in your application or accepting that job:

- It is very true that getting a job on a cruise liner is not easy, but that does not stop you to be a success seaman!

- You must prepare to work long hours: 12 to 14 hours a day, 7 days a week. All days off come at the end of the contract.

- In all cruise line jobs, employees are required to sign a contract for four to six months duration which are renewable.

- Accommodation for the cruise staffs will be on one of the lower levels, with or without a port hole or window.

- Your cabin is very modest including a television, toilet and shower, and you will be sharing the cabin with one or more roommates.



- You will be at sea in all types of weather. Light forms of sea-sickness will be experienced amongst all seamen.

- There will be various leisure facilities for crew members, such as the gym, fitness centre, swimming pool, bar and meeting room. However, you are not allowed to use the facilities for the passengers.

- Most cruise liners embark in the USA. You will need to pay the travel expenses from your home to the port yourself; however if you have fulfilled all the requirements of the contract, most of the cruise ships will give you an airline ticket back home at the end.

- When your work has proven satisfactory, you will be offered another contract along with a plane ticket back to the ship, after six to eight weeks at home. The work schedule is flexible, and often demanding.

- If you quit your job before the contract has ended or if you are fired, you will have to pay your own way back home.

- You will get pay monthly in U.S. dollars while working according to your contract.

- Good health is definitely a requirement, and you must pass a required medical physical examination as a condition of employment.

- Even you have worked as a bar tender or a waiter ashore, the same job feature on large resort ship is quite different. You may have to start out as a busboy or room steward / stewardess and work up to waiter, bar tender or office staff.



You can read a good article first about cruise line jobs on “Finding a Job in the Cruise Industry - Pros and Cons of Working Onboard”
by Linda Garrison at www.about.com to learn more!



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