Crewing: an Option to Travel Without Money
June 30, 2010
Many travelers in the world are implementing several decades since a new form of travel where the money is not necessary. The crewing lets you work on a cruise ship or other vessel and at the same time to travel and enjoy. In this paper you will learn everything you need for crewing and not die trying. Because now everyone can travel.
Hundreds of years ago were really few people could travel by sea, only those who knew about navigation or who dared to use in a boat. When tourism does not exist and everything was away, the sailors were men of the world and in their retinas had stories of strange places, which they had when they arrived at their home, creating wonderful legends and stories.
Now it seems that everything is easier, but it is also true that to travel a lot to save in a year or more. So if you do not have enough money or just like to travel and work at the same time, the crewing is the best option.
What is crewing?
Crewing is the services that require certain shipping companies for work on board. The interesting thing is that there are various possibilities to engage in one of these works, and under different time frames. If you’ve ever dreamed of traveling, and get paid for it, this is your chance.
Neither sailor or captain … or yes
Among the possibilities offered by crewing can be not only maintenance personnel, such as cleaning or engineer, there are also boats which include masseurs, doctors, nurses, cooks and in the case of leisure boats, party entertainers (magicians, jugglers, clowns), dancers, singers, croupiers, physical education, dance, translators, barman … the possibilities are many, but the requirements are too. There are also specialized diving boats or snorkeling instructor where jobs are in high demand.
The mode of operation is usually round in the same boat, and you can enjoy the cities and ports that you get to know in a short period of time, but enjoying the most of those days.
For boaters there is also the option of being masters of luxury yachts and skippers of sailboats rented by leisure travelers. But this option we have our years of practice and navigation made.
Another new alternative in this area is the opportunity to work for masters of yachts or sailboats for lack of time need to carry their boats from one port to another and pay for other captains to perform this task. You could say that this is almost the dream job. The possibility of carrying navigation from city to city can take a tour of the greater number of destinations in the shortest possible time, as opposed to a cruise that usually runs a single region, with few stops in cities. Bear in mind what kind of boat you’re pointing as many of them allow tourists to have one of the best views from the boat, but you have to work very little and enjoy the journey. The trips that make a journey by sea, such as those that go to the glaciers, are the best choice for tourists, while those with several stops in different cities will be the best choice for the traveler who makes crewing.
What you need
To get to work on a ship need to be specialists in any of the activities you listed above. Also know several languages, English is almost obligatory in all, and finally have a good level of general culture. The alternatives are chosen by young people in the area of the kitchen, working as assistant chef, barman, dishwasher and all culinary activities engaged on a boat. For some of these tasks must submit verifiable references of previous work, while others such as those for cleaning will be more accessible to inexperienced travelers.
Travel and work: two for one
When you’re selecting what work you can sign up, you can watch not only your job skills, but also in the time zone that requires work. It is useful to know in advance the cruise or boat stops and coordinate the work schedule to be able to descend to land as many times. If the city tours are scheduled in the afternoon, the best working hours will be morning or night, and similarly for other alternatives. However, if you have no idea of the timeline of the ship, working at night is the most popular choice for experienced travelers. Because passengers must sleep on the boat, going out to cities and the best views are made to the sunlight, so working at night you will get the most out of your trip.
If your resume allows you to sign up on more specific tasks such as event organizer, chef, dealer and other skilled jobs, the pay is better but depending on the responsibility assigned to you, some of these tasks often have full-time schedules. To escape these works do not need anything else to ask what are the options with less workload, because sometimes, even if you have experience, it is best to take those tasks that will help you fulfill your dream of travel.
The trip after work
Another option you have and one of the favorites are those trips where the pleasure comes after several weeks. It occurs mainly in ships that stop at several cities where the trip is round trip. In this case the work is usually in the kitchen or cleaning the area. Once you arrive at your destination you’ll have a couple of days to tour the city without anything stop you.
Where to begin your search
There are many companies who are responsible for looking for people willing to work for these boats, most is European or American, but you’re patiently in the network where you can find agencies send your CV and hopefully that dream desired trip.
However, be careful because not all firms are good level. If ever you ask for money to upload your data you send, as it is very likely to be a hoax.
As extra information that is currently not easy to find work on merchant ships, as supply far exceeds demand, and since the attacks on the Twin Towers the safety and security conditions have tightened the possibility of traveling passenger and as a worker in short time spans.
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