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   ideas
   December 22nd, 2009 - 08:12

   You might have noticed that nearly all cruise ships are registered not in the US, but rather in places like the Bahamas, Panama, Liberia, etc. You may also have noticed that there are few US employees on cruise ships. Most are from very poor third world nations such as Indonesia and the Philippines. This does not happen by coincidence.

   A cruise ship registered in Panama, etc does not have to pay US wages or abide by US labor laws. Most cruise ship employees work very long hours for very low pay. By long hours and low pay, I mean 12 hours per day, every day, and wages of maybe $400 per month. That works out to not much more than $1 per hour. Compare that to $7.25 per hour minimum wage in the US, with a 50% increase for anything over 40 hours per week. Some cruise ship employees receive tips in addition to their salaries, but they’re still working for wages that are quite low. An American would be better off working at any burger joint than doing most jobs on a cruise ship.

   The exception would be professional people such as doctors, accountants and chefs. Cruise lines do employ some such employees, and their pay would be better. The question then becomes whether you have a skill needed by the cruise line to qualify you for such a job.

   Good luck.
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   Mike
   December 22nd, 2009 - 08:43

   They dont know what they are talking about. I worked onboard ships for 3 years and am american. I made about $3000 a month and worked between 3 and 6 hours a day, 7 days a week, mind you.
   You can easily get a job onboard. Find out what you are good at and apply for that equivalent onboard.

   Here are a few well paying and american hiring positions: Cruise director, cruise staff, youth counselor, gift shop, spa attendant, masseuse, navigational officer, safety officer, environmental officer, hotel director, assistant hotel director, event manager, manager of onboard media, sound tech, lighting tech, theater tech, broadcast tech, dancer, guest entertainer, musician, front desk, casino dealer or manager, finance/accounting, payroll, personnel, crew purser, bar manager, art auctioneer, shore excursions sales, shorex manager, and the list goes on.

   There are literally hundreds of jobs on each ship that dont suck. With ships being built bigger and better every year as well as the industries high turnover rate, you can expect a lot of openings to keep coming up.

   They do pay people from the Philippines and indonesia slave wages, and sadly they also treat them as such. You however are from a western country and will get paid a lot more than them for a job that works you much less. This is a fact of the industry. You will find loads of people from around the world working and you better believe they make enough to bring back to their homes in the UK, Holland, South Africa, Australia, Canada, etc.

   I dont know what you are good at but the lowest paying job I listed pays about 1500 a month and the highest paying is about 10,000 a month. You dont pay for your room and you eat the same food as the passengers but you do it for free. Depending on your position you will not even pay for your flights to and from the ship. Plus you get to travel the world as I did for 3 years spending whatever time you can in port off the ship.
   References :
   http://www.traveldroppings.com/articles/how-to-get-a-job-onboard-cruise-ships.html
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