How hard is the cruise work?

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

In fact, cruise ships are the safest way to travel in the world at present. Any cruise company will take ensuring the safety of passengers and crew as its primary task. Let's see if these common questions are true.

Are there pirates?

Cruise companies will avoid pirate routes. And because the cruise ship is too big, pirates can't climb it. Even if they happen to meet, the pirate's ship can do nothing about the cruise ship and can only make way.

What should I do if I get sick and hurt?

The cruise ship is equipped with medical staff who 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 only happen when a large amount of sea water surges and the coastline suddenly narrows, usually on the shore. Cruise ships sail in the depths of the ocean. Moreover, if the geology on the shore changes, the cruise ship will also receive an alarm to deal with it in advance.

Do 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 10 hours a day. Besides, working on a boat is boring. People are strange and homesick. Before boarding a cruise ship, you have to go through an agency, which costs a lot of money and needs to be studied. It takes 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 illusion of traveling around the world with a monthly salary of several thousand yuan. What greeted them was the overwhelming reality: Isn't there an 8-hour working day on the cruise ship? Sometimes I have to work 12 hours? What about the masseur? Why distribute leaflets to sell products?

In order to avoid your unrealistic fantasy and being deceived by some intermediary's excessive propaganda, I will tell you something about working on a cruise ship now.

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

How to choose a position?

Basic post: As the name implies, it is a general service industry with low threshold and no need for special skills. No work experience, no specialties, no hobbies, and no fear 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.

Rooms and catering departments also have one thing in common: generally speaking, they need to start from junior positions. English can generally be a cleaner, from a cleaner to a room attendant. This tour takes the least time, and each voyage lasts only 3 hours at most, so you can go out and play. However, they earn a lot. Although the cleaners are only 800 yuan, they are all over 2400 yuan after promotion, and they don't need professional knowledge and assessment.

If you have good English, you can work as a waiter in a western restaurant and spend more time traveling. You can play for 6-9 hours at least one day on each voyage. Western restaurant waiters need to be promoted from food delivery waiter to restaurant assistant waiter and then to restaurant waiter. 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 exam.

Bartender is generally promoted from bartender. Promotion is not difficult, especially when many new ships are launched and people are badly needed, and sometimes they are promoted in batches.

If you want to be a basic position and don't want to be too tired, then interview. Especially on the China route, few people drink alcohol, and bar waiters and bartenders also get a guaranteed salary of 1000 to more than 2,000 dollars. There is basically nothing to do every day, just standing there swinging, relaxed and happy. But if the bar goes to Europe and America, it is also very lively. Being busy means you will get a lot of tips and have a chance to go out and have a look. Therefore, the bar is a job to make money and travel.

Of course, the food and beverage department has not only basic positions, but also many senior positions, such as sommelier and restaurant manager, all of which need to be based in the restaurant and have excellent professional knowledge.

Some people say that I don't want to make money or do manual work. I just want to relax, mainly for fun. Students with this idea can face casinos, photographers, duty-free shops, spas and other departments, which is more suitable. Don't these positions make money? Also make money. However, these departments are all sales positions and have sales pressure. You need love to get through the stress.

Among them, Casino is only open on the high seas and closed as soon as it arrives in Hong Kong. So now it's the most time for travel and rest, and the work is not hard. The salary is the monthly basic salary plus secondhand smoke subsidy. About 1500 dollars. This is the only revenue department without sales pressure. Disadvantages are staying up late and smoking secondhand smoke.

Photographers also have a lot of rest time, and they can take a picture with a SLR every time they go out. And girls like to go out with photographers. The photographer's salary is basically around 1000- 1500 dollars.

Duty-free shops are 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. You may be worried 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. For companies like DUFRY and Starboard, the salary is generally 1500-3000 dollars. Is a good play, making relatively more money.

SPA also needs to be open during the port hours, so the play time is not as much as the first two locations. But you can work hard and trade your performance for a few hours. If your performance is good, you can also rest in Hong Kong every time. There is a big wage gap between Chinese and foreign airlines. Because there are few people doing massage in China, the income is not high. If you pass English and have a good working attitude, you can generally go to Europe and America to sign a contract for the second time. When I go to Europe and America, I can not only play, but also get a salary starting from 2000 dollars.

There are also some senior service posts, such as network management, entertainment department, security inspection, front desk and so on. , each has its own advantages, not so tired. But it needs some experience, and many of them are transferred from other basic positions inside the cruise ship.

Having said so much, the purpose is to let you know what you have and what you want first. Choose a good location, and if you feel inappropriate after you have 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 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 persist or give up after you dry your tears.

Generally speaking, the hardest thing is the first contract. I was dumbfounded the first day I got on the boat. After lunch, I put down my luggage and began to wear work clothes. I didn't get off work until after 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 maritime laws and regulations, and the rest time that must be guaranteed every day is only 10 hour. For example, on our five-day and five-night voyage, each voyage has a sailing day. I have to work from 9: 00 am to 1 1 pm, excluding the two hours of lunch break. I have to work 12 hours. I have to work 4-9 hours a day on other Hong Kong days.

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.

The basic language on cruise ships is English, 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 psychologically stressful. Later, I recorded the meeting and listened to it again and again. I soon got used to it. Coupled with the language environment, I try my best to understand what others say and express my thoughts in English every day. Unconsciously, my English has been greatly improved. Later, I can even translate for new colleagues, which is really super fulfilling.

As long as we stick to the end of the first contract, the second contract and the third contract are natural things. 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 signed nine contracts. She just loves cruise life and can't stop.

What's the way 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?

First: translators and tour guides. In order to improve employees' language ability, international cruise ships will hold free language training: Spanish, Italian, French, German, etc. And some companies will give corresponding rewards to employees who learn new languages. For example, on some routes of Princess Cruises, students who can speak Japanese will receive a language subsidy of $200 more than others as long as they pass the company audit. 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 home, it is not a problem to be a non-professional multilingual translator or an international tour guide.

Second: the management of star-rated hotels. Working on international cruise ships, 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 the training, you will get an internationally recognized English certificate. With these certificates, you can directly apply for middle management positions in many star-rated hotels after returning home. The qualifications and background of cruise work are very popular with international hotels.

Third: grounding 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 who come down from the cruise ship.

Fourth: working in the headquarters of a foreign company or a cruise company. 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 China's cruise industry, more and more students are enrolled, and the training talents of major universities are in short supply. Even when many sea passengers rest in the middle of the contract, they are hired by the agency to take new students back. So after disembarking, you can bring your experience of working in cruise ships to future cruise ships 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 rapidly and mature rapidly. Your willpower and stress resistance will be honed in the first few months of the cruise contract. The hardships and twists and turns are difficult to express in words, and we can only rely on our own experiences to understand the joys and sorrows.