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re: Working on a cruise ship is probably a miserable job
Posted on 9/15/26 at 11:55 am to Ramblin Wreck
Posted on 9/15/26 at 11:55 am to Ramblin Wreck
I don’t know. I’d imagine being a roofer in Texas is a little more taxing
Posted on 9/15/26 at 12:00 pm to Ramblin Wreck
My high school buddy loves it. The key is working on a cruise ship, but not for the cruise ship. He works for a company that has the software companies use for retail sales. So he spends lots of work at racetracks, resorts, stadiums, and cruises.
They fly him out to a port(usually Asia or Europe), he joins the cruise for xx amount of days. Since he's programming computers by himself, he works after dinner. And during the day he does excursions in the various stops. When he is on a cruise he just eats at the buffet and uses his meal per diem for his time in ports.
They fly him out to a port(usually Asia or Europe), he joins the cruise for xx amount of days. Since he's programming computers by himself, he works after dinner. And during the day he does excursions in the various stops. When he is on a cruise he just eats at the buffet and uses his meal per diem for his time in ports.
Posted on 9/15/26 at 12:06 pm to Radio One
Who are you supposed to be? Topper Bottoms, the stern-yet-sensitive skipper of the SS RoughService?
Posted on 9/15/26 at 3:21 pm to wesfau
You don't want to be the stay at home boyfriend to a girl who works on cruise ship. I knew a guy... we tried to tell him
Posted on 9/15/26 at 4:46 pm to cwil177
quote:I’ve looked at cruise-ship culinary jobs out of curiosity, and the pay is absurdly low by American chef standards, which is saying something because we don’t typically make amazing money to begin with.
I’ve looked into being the boat doc and it kind of sounds like a shitty gig. Pay is meh and you don’t get to leave the boat for excursions and such. Some have you on call 24/7. If my entire life burned down and I was suddenly homeless I might consider it, but otherwise no thanks.
Royal Caribbean can pay a cook less for an entire month of seven-day weeks and 12–14 hour days than I make in one week on land. Once you see the numbers, it becomes pretty obvious why third-country nationals make up such a huge share of the cruise industry workforce. For an experienced American, the economics are terrible.
Posted on 9/15/26 at 5:12 pm to Ramblin Wreck
I think it would depend on the line and ship itself. At the minimum I'd want to be on Celebrity/Princess/Holland, but I bet something like Oceania, Ritz Carlton, or Regent could fun with a high cut and older clientel.
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