will working on Cruise ship give me the similar experience as the industry

[Wright20]

Hey people, I'm paul and I'm new to the forum and i need advice about what i should do next, sorry if this is no this is not where you post it.
My Question is this, i after i finish my 303 practical (if i pass) I'm worried what will come after as jobs are low in my area, my tutor said to join a cadetship on a cruise ship. now i wondering will that help me in the future.
The position is an Electro-Technical cadet, it requires GCSE's A-Bs in math, english and science but i got Cs in all, but if i get my 2330 Level 3 will that help at all.

Sorry for going on a bit and again if its in the wrong area

Thanks for any help givien

Paul

 

[oldtimer]

I dont know about that but a guy I worked with was on a Disney ship and he told a funny story about Minnie cornering him in a cabin.

Thats all folks

 

[telectrix]

go for it. at least you will see some of the world outside of this sinking ship of a country. take whatever courses you are offered. then after your cadetship, consider your options.

 

[Wright20]

Did he happen to have big ears and look like a mouse

 

[Wright20]

Yeah i was thinking of going for it but i'm worried about my gcse's being the cause of them knocking me back

 

[oldtimer]

Did he happen to have big ears and look like a mouse

Na he was a maintenance man but he said she was more like a rabbit than a mouse (whatever that means)

 

[mayfair]

When they test the earth on a cruise ship and the ship is connected to the land at say portsmouth as it moves away from the land does the earth still work or will it use the water earth !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just wonder and wonder all day long and when it gets to say Spain will that be a Spanish earth and come under Spanish regs!!!!!!!!!!

 

[High Tower]

I used to work on the BIG p&o's such as Aurora and ventura, at no point do they ever connect a ship to any on land services, the only bit that ever comes ashore is the lines and the gangway

The ship runs permanently on its own generator and earths itself through the general mass of water

 

[mayfair]

Thats cleared that up then, Ill sleep tonight. Its a full moon so i hope i'll sleep ...............nobody knows

 

[mayfair]

You know them space shuttle things well about the Earth ............They always say they can see the earth so do they need a Earth, Hang on just going for some water to take these pills

 

[High Tower]

You know them space shuttle things well about the Earth ............They always say they can see the earth so do they need a Earth, Hang on just going for some water to take these pills

Really long wander lead and a BS951 clamp.

 

[mayfair]

I knew you would know it says on your post formally NASA so a spaceman is bound to know this sort a thing

 

[High Tower]

Ahh yes but few people realise the irony, i claim to be a pHd but cannot spell NASA!!

 

[mayfair]

Its all that weighlessness you guys have must affect your brains lol .............Look at what happened to that Durham guy with all that presure under the water ........Your lucky

 

[mattmoo1974]

Watch out for the "Golden Rivet"

 

[topquark]

Ahh yes but few people realise the irony, i claim to be a pHd but cannot spell NASA!!

Or formerly!

 

[High Tower]

Or formerly!

Well doner mate, in 2 years your the first to spot that!! i was wondering how long it was going to take!!

 

[topquark]

Well doner mate, in 2 years your the first to spot that!! i was wondering how long it was going to take!!

Given the amount of excellent advice you give out mate ... who gives a stuff

 

[telectrix]

Yeah i was thinking of going for it but i'm worried about my gcse's being the cause of them knocking me back

take no notice of the other idiots on the forum tonight. this idiot has his sensible 'ed on art the moment ( not my fault, the oofy's run out of beer ), and this idiot says that your grades should not knock you back if you show them that you're up to it and for it. they may want you to sit an entrance exam, but it shouldn't be too hard. grade c,s are better than what i got in some of my subjects.

 

[mayfair]

he's at it again nurse Done = doner

 

[mayfair]

Complements Eh thats not gonna get ya a free week in Spain .......

take no notice of the other idiots on the forum tonight. this idiot has his sensible 'ed on art the moment ( not my fault, the oofy's run out of beer ), and this idiot says that your grades should not knock you back if you show them that you're up to it and for it. they may want you to sit an entrance exam, but it shouldn't be too hard. grade c,s are better than what i got in some of my subjects.

 

[High Tower]

take no notice of the other idiots on the forum tonight. this idiot has his sensible 'ed on art the moment ( not my fault, the oofy's run out of beer ), and this idiot says that your grades should not knock you back if you show them that you're up to it and for it. they may want you to sit an entrance exam, but it shouldn't be too hard. grade c,s are better than what i got in some of my subjects.

Whos an idiot???........oh bugger he means me!

Ill have you know that being a idiot is a long perfected life skill!! its even on my Cv!

In all fairness to the OP, a C&G 2330, far exceeds and inimum GCSE requirement, if he gives me a PM, i will dig out my cruise co contacts for him during the week!

 

[mayfair]

Oh dear you mean wright 20 is not Durham ........Whoops sorry

 

[SMB]

You know them space shuttle things well about the Earth ............They always say they can see the earth so do they need a Earth, Hang on just going for some water to take these pills

Mayfair, that is the funniest post of the day, that has put a smile on my face. Thanks.



I worked on large ministry boats for 2 years, I would never do that again. From my experince large boats are filthy, noisy cess pits. But I don't like electrics and im presently scared of the sea.

 

[Kamikaze]

I used to work on the BIG p&o's such as Aurora and ventura, at no point do they ever connect a ship to any on land services, the only bit that ever comes ashore is the lines and the gangway

The ship runs permanently on its own generator and earths itself through the general mass of water

What baffles me is, if a ship is bonded to the general mass of water, then what is spaceship earth bonded to? And it can’t be a TT system because if it was where is the RCD installed? I got a feeling some clown has exported the earth again.

 

[topquark]

What baffles me is, if a ship is bonded to the general mass of water, then what is spaceship earth bonded to? And it can’t be a TT system because if it was where is the RCD installed? I got a feeling some clown has exported the earth again.

They don't have Earth's at all mate!

 

[mayfair]

Do you not remember the moon landing when Neil Armstrong knocked in the earth rod ...........The one with the flag thingy on it well that was for TT ............Do i have to explain everything FFS but remember the terminology changes the EARTH becomes the MOON when you do the cert.

 

[telectrix]

the spaceship is suspended within a potential gradient, so does not require an earth in it's own right. like birds sitting on a HV cable. if the astronauts were to drop a long conductive chain down to the nearest planet, one of two things could happen.

1. they would all be toast.

2. the resultant surge in electrical energy could boost them into hyperdrive and enable them to boldly go where no man has gone before ( susan boyle's knickers ).

3. they could splash down on top of durham's ( captain nemo ) u-boat

4. my lottery numbers could come up and you wouldn't see my arse for dust.

i know i said 2 things, but i got carried away.

3.

 

[DurhamSparky]

FFS...... i get it at work i get it on the bloody forum....!!

just started working with a lad who is ex RFA and well we were chatting about silly things you do etc while we were building some LED fittings ... and suddenly out of no where the gaffa pipes up....!!! Oi NELSON and BIRDSEYE shut up while i get a word in edge ways!!!

charming!!

 

[ian.settle1]

Thing you have to look at is that should you get taken on as an ETO cadet do you think you will be able to study to HND/Degree level which is what you will be doing should they take you on.

 

[telectrix]

i wouldn't like to do HND again. bloody hard work, and that was before all the new stuff like computers came out.

 

[oldtimer]

i wouldn't like to do HND again. bloody hard work, and that was before all the new stuff like computers came out.

Yep times are a changing I got top marks for my C&G and my manager said why dont you go for your ONC and then your HNC I said ok then but as I work in electrical contracting I (at the time) will have to take a day off will you pay me for it your having a laugh he said ok then I will work a saturday morning for nothing if you pay me for the day off No chance he said instead I had to watch the guys who worked for the local and district councils the NHS and the PSA/DOE get it on a plate plus expensies but hey thats the cards that are dealt at the time although a lot of people got their quals through the module courses that I believe has now been stopped The only problem now is because the whole system is now fragmented I just dont envy the guys trying to get through what I can only describe as a mire today