Folky
07-11-2008, 19:01
Hi, this message is for anyone who remembers what it's like to be just coming out of dive school and not knowing exactly what to do about finding work and who has a little time to give a newbie a hand.
I'm graduating from the Divers Institutes of Technology in April. I'm not really interested in going to the gulf of Mexico where I hear Caldive and Global are basically hiring every single student from our graduating classes every month. I'm more interested in working inland and getting a whole lot of different experiences i.e different underwater construction projects, NDT, maintenance etc. Basically I want to do something different every day and I'm not all that interested in cleaning chambers and painting floors and what not (which I hear are a few menial tasks that tenders have to do for a period of 2-3 years if they go offshore.)
I have nothing against doing these jobs as well as diving, because obviously it happens in every career that you have to do jobs you don't want once in a while but 2 years of it seems a little steep.
Anyways, I've been looking for inland companies on Longstreath.com and emailing them that I'm interested but so far not much luck. I was hoping someone could give me some ideas on who to contact, people who are looking for tenders inland and even offshore experiences that counter what I've heard over the past couple of weeks.
Basically any informations would be greatly appreciated on my hunt for inland (or offshore) employment that might steer me in the right direction.
Thank you.
I'm graduating from the Divers Institutes of Technology in April. I'm not really interested in going to the gulf of Mexico where I hear Caldive and Global are basically hiring every single student from our graduating classes every month. I'm more interested in working inland and getting a whole lot of different experiences i.e different underwater construction projects, NDT, maintenance etc. Basically I want to do something different every day and I'm not all that interested in cleaning chambers and painting floors and what not (which I hear are a few menial tasks that tenders have to do for a period of 2-3 years if they go offshore.)
I have nothing against doing these jobs as well as diving, because obviously it happens in every career that you have to do jobs you don't want once in a while but 2 years of it seems a little steep.
Anyways, I've been looking for inland companies on Longstreath.com and emailing them that I'm interested but so far not much luck. I was hoping someone could give me some ideas on who to contact, people who are looking for tenders inland and even offshore experiences that counter what I've heard over the past couple of weeks.
Basically any informations would be greatly appreciated on my hunt for inland (or offshore) employment that might steer me in the right direction.
Thank you.