Is it true that seafarers don’t want their wives to go to work?

Introduction to seafarers:

Seafarers are the collective name for the staff of ships sailing the sea, and are generally divided into senior seafarers and ordinary seafarers.

Senior seafarers are divided into management level and operational level: management level: chief engineer, first mate, second engineer, political commissar (only available in China); operational level: second mate, second engineer, third mate, Three tube wheel. Ordinary seamen are also called support level boatswain, chief engineer, first water, second water, engineer, etc., and also include cooks, clerks, etc. Nowadays, most ships on the domestic coast also have the position of steward, also known as the shipowner's representative, which should be at the management level. Seafarers must not only have a strong body and proficient professional skills, but also have good psychological quality, strong environmental adaptability and the ability to respond to emergencies. The seafarer profession has very high professional quality requirements for employees.

Occupation specificity:

Since sailing is far away from home, drifting on the sea of ??the same color for several months or even nearly a year, the natural environment is ever-changing and dangerous, so the mental load of seafarers is Extremely heavy.

Seafarers have a narrow scope of activities and spend more than 80% of the year in this small world. Although the duty system stipulates taking turns to rest, there is no possibility of major environmental changes. Moreover, the duty cycle is endless, work and rest times are inconsistent, and the rhythm of life is irregular. Every two days of sailing, the time difference is more than an hour. The circadian rhythm is constantly changing, the seasons are constantly shifting, and the seafarers' biological rhythms change frequently, which causes anxiety, boredom and various diseases.

The work place, social area and personal area cannot be separated on the ship and are set in stone. Change without role reversal is not good for mental health.

Monotonous work, a single male community, and a monotonous environment cause sexual repression, boredom, fatigue, and insecurity among seafarers; they are emotionally unstable, irritable, aggressive, quarreling, and apathetic. , stubbornness, withdrawal, slowness, and various psychological distress, causing bad behaviors and diseases.

Is it true that seafarers don’t want their wives to go to work?

I think it is precisely because of the special work and special psychological pressure of seafarers that they feel insecure about their families and worry about gains and losses. In fact, jokingly speaking, the seaman is away from home every day, probably because he is afraid that his hard-earned wife will go to work and be abducted by outside temptations!

After all, this is no different from a long-distance relationship! (Of course, this is a joke! It’s somewhat true, it depends on netizens’ interpretation~)