some people say that working on a cruise ship is awesome. While earning US dollars, you can travel around the world, and colleagues from all over the world can feel the cultures of different regions. It is also said that working on a cruise ship is very dangerous, especially for girls. What is the experience of working on a cruise ship? Is it really dangerous to work on a boat?

In fact, cruise ship is the mode of travel with the highest safety factor in the world at present. Any cruise company will take ensuring the safety of passengers and crew as its top priority. Let's see if these common questions are true.

are there any pirates?

cruise companies will avoid routes with pirates. And because the cruise ship is too big, pirates can't climb it. Even if they happen to meet, the pirate's boat can't do anything about the cruise, so it can only make way.

what should I do if I get sick and hurt?

all cruise ships are equipped with medical personnel, which are located on the first floor of the deck. If there is a problem that the medical staff can't solve, a helicopter will be sent to help.

will there be a tsunami?

Tsunamis occur only when a huge amount of sea water surges and the coastline suddenly narrows, usually on the shore. Cruise ships are sailing in the depths of the ocean. And if the geology changes at the shore, the cruise ship will also receive an alarm to deal with it in advance.

will you get seasick?

modern cruise ships are basically oversized. Giant cruise ships have more than a dozen floors. Walking on it is like walking on the ground. If you are really worried, you can go to the infirmary to get free seasickness medicine.

So working on a cruise ship is really all about food and clothing, and it's easy to get dollars?

of course not. Cruise work is actually very tiring, working more than 11 hours a day. Besides, working on a boat is boring. People are strangers and will miss home. Before boarding a cruise, you have to go through an agency, which costs a lot of money and needs research. It will take six months to a year to get on board. Many people gave up easily at the first level and shelved their cruise dreams.

Of course, many people persisted. After many tests, they came to the cruise ship with the fantasy of traveling around the world with a monthly salary of several thousand dollars, and they were greeted by the overwhelming reality: actually, there is no 8-hour working system on the cruise ship. Sometimes you have to work 12 hours? What about the agreed masseur? Why distribute leaflets to sell products?

in order to avoid your unrealistic fantasy and being deceived by some agents' excessive publicity, I'll tell you something about working on a cruise ship now.

first of all, you should know what conditions you have now. What kind of purpose you want to achieve. If these two don't figure it out, you will probably resign.

how to choose a position?

Basic position: As the name implies, it is a general service industry with low threshold and no need for special skills. If you have no work experience, special skills and hobbies, you are not afraid of hardship. The main purpose of boarding a ship is to make money. Then the most suitable position for you on the ship is the basic position: guest room and catering department.

the guest room and the food and beverage department also have one thing in common: generally speaking, it is necessary to start from a junior position. English can generally be a cleaner, from cleaner to room attendant. This tour has the least time, and each voyage has only 3 hours at most, so you can go out for a little fun. However, they earn a lot. Although the cleaners are only eight or nine hundred dollars, they are all above 2,411 dollars after promotion, and they don't need professional knowledge and assessment.

If you have a good command of English, you can work as a waiter in a western restaurant and spend a little more time traveling. You can play for 6-9 hours on at least one day of each voyage. Western restaurant waiters need to be promoted from food delivery waiters to assistant restaurant waiters, and then to restaurant waiters. The overall treatment of western food waiters is also very high, especially in fee-paying restaurants. Two or three thousand dollars is basic, and tips will be taken. However, English is very demanding. You have to memorize western food knowledge and pass the examination.

Bartender is usually promoted from a bartender. It is not difficult to get promoted, especially when many new ships are launched and people are badly needed, and sometimes they are promoted in batches.

if you want to do a basic position and don't want to be too tired, then interview the bar. Especially on the China route, few people drink, and the bar waiters and bartenders also get a guaranteed basic salary of more than 1,111 to more than 2,111 dollars. There is basically nothing to do every day, and they stand there swinging around, relaxed and happy. But if the bar goes to Europe and America, it is also very busy. Busy means that you will get a lot of tips and have a chance to go out and have a look. Therefore, the bar is a position that makes money and travels.

Of course, the food and beverage department has not only basic positions, but also many senior positions, such as wine taster and restaurant manager, which require a firm foothold in the restaurant and excellent professional knowledge.

some people say that I don't want to make money or do manual work, but I just want to relax, mainly for fun. Students with this idea can face the departments of Casino, photographer, duty-free shop and SPA, which is more suitable. Don't these positions make money? Also make money. However, these departments are sales positions and there is sales pressure. You need love to survive the pressure.

among them, the Casino is only open on the high seas, and it will be closed as soon as it arrives in Hong Kong. Therefore, it is the most time for travel and rest, and the work is not hard. The salary is based on basic salary and second-hand smoke subsidy every month. About 1,511 dollars. This is the only Revenue department that has no sales pressure. Disadvantages are staying up late and smoking secondhand smoke.

Photographers also have a lot of rest time, and they can take a shot with a SLR every time they go out. And girls like to go out with photographers. The photographer's salary is basically around 1,111-1,511 dollars.

Duty-free shops are also only open when sailing, but sometimes they have to help the immigration bureau send and receive passports or take stock, so the rest time is the second most. Perhaps you will worry that the pressure on sales performance will be great, but in fact, fortunately, many duty-free shops are equally divided. But one thing, duty-free shops need to talk and communicate with customers a lot, so English must be good. The salary depends on the situation. For companies like DUFRY and Starboard, the salary is generally between 1,511 and 3,111 dollars. It is a position that plays well and makes relatively more money.

because the p>SPA also needs to be open during port hours, the play time is not as much as the first two positions. But you can work hard, exchange your performance for hours, and if your performance is good, you can also have a rest every time in Hong Kong. There is a big wage gap between Chinese and foreign airlines. Because there are few people doing massage in China season, the income is not high. If you pass English and have a good work attitude, you can usually go to Europe and America for the second contract. When I went to Europe and America, I could not only play, but also get a salary starting from $2,111.

There are also some service-oriented senior positions, such as network management, entertainment department, security inspection, front desk, etc. Each has its own advantages and is not so tiring. However, it requires some experience, and many of them have been transferred from other basic positions within the cruise ship.

the purpose of saying so much is to let you know what you really have and what you want first. Choose a good position, and if you feel inappropriate after you have already gone, it will be a bit troublesome. Post adjustment is not a simple matter.

how hard is it to work on a cruise ship?

Cruise ship work is a great test of psychological quality. I can assure you that all people who work on cruise ships have "blue skinny mushrooms" sometimes. The difference is whether you stick to it or give up after you dry your tears.

generally speaking, the most difficult thing is the first contract. I was dumbfounded the first day I got on the boat. I put down my luggage and started to put on my work clothes after lunch, and didn't get off work until ten o'clock in the evening. Yes, the rhythm on the cruise ship is so tight.

The working hours of cruise ships do not follow the 8-hour working system, but follow the maritime regulations, and the rest time that must be guaranteed every day is only 11 hours. For example, in our five-day and five-night voyage, each voyage has a sailing day, and I have to work from 9: 11 am to 11: 11 pm, excluding two hours of lunch break, and I have to work for 12 hours a day. Other port days also have to work 4-9 hours a day.

the boat is not home, you must adapt to the environment. Once you get used to it, you will like this fast-paced life very much, because every minute you spend here, you can learn something, earn dollars and make yourself happy. The meaning of cruise life is to work hard and play hard, and your time will become very valuable. The way to cope with the intensity of work is to persist and find happiness from work.

English is the basic language on cruise ships, especially on European and American routes. Different countries have different English accents, and at first they will not understand and speak. When I first went to work, my colleagues had a meeting in English, which was completely incomprehensible and had great psychological pressure. Later, I recorded the contents of the meeting and listened to it repeatedly. I soon got used to it. Coupled with the language environment, I tried my best to understand what others said and express my thoughts in English every day. Before I knew it, my English was greatly improved. Later, I can even translate for new colleagues, which is really super fulfilling.

as long as the first contract ends, the second contract and the third contract are natural. Many people got off the boat and wanted to find jobs and settle down in China, but after working for a while, they returned to the boat. I have a girl from China who has made nine contracts. She simply loves cruise life and can't stop.

what are the ways out after disembarking?

No matter how good the cruise ship is, it is not a long-term solution. What can we do when we come back from the cruise ship?

first: translator and tour guide. In order to improve the language ability of employees, international cruise ships will hold free language training: Spanish, Italian, French and German, etc. And some companies will give corresponding rewards to employees who learn new languages. For example, some routes of Princess Cruises, students who can speak Japanese, as long as they pass the company's audit, will receive a language subsidy of 211 dollars more than others. Since there are guests and employees from any country on board, you can use the language you have learned immediately and improve quickly. Therefore, after returning to China, it is not a problem to be a non-professional multilingual translator and an international tour guide.

second: the management of star-rated hotels. To work on an international cruise ship, there will be quite a lot of vocational training, such as western food service standard service training, wine appreciation and so on, and every time you pass a training, you will be awarded an internationally recognized English certificate. With these certificates, you can go directly to many star-rated hotels to apply for middle-level management jobs after returning home. The qualifications and background of cruise work are very popular with international hotels.

third: ground connection and ground handling. Now more and more ships are entering the China market. This means that the number of staff on land will also increase significantly. Just like the ground handling at the airport, the ground handling and ground connection of cruise ships will give priority to hiring staff coming down from the cruise ship.

fourth: working in the headquarters of foreign companies or cruise companies. For example, Steiner's beautician and fitness instructor, and Image's photographer can go to relevant foreign companies as trainers or supervisors after disembarking.

fifth: training teachers. The training teachers of cruise agents are almost all from cruise ships. Moreover, with the development of cruise industry in China, more and more students are recruited, and the training talents of major universities are in short supply. Even when many sea passengers took a break in the middle of a contract, they were hired by the agency to take new students back. Therefore, after disembarking, you can bring your experience in cruise work to future cruise people by becoming a training teacher.

Cruise work is actually a brand-new way of life: it will quickly pull you out of your comfort zone, grow up and mature quickly. Your willpower and stress resistance will be honed in the first few months of the cruise contract. The hardships and twists and turns are hard to express in words, and we can only understand the joys and sorrows by our own experience.