Picture yourself plying over thousands of miles of ocean, while occasionally docking at historic ports of call. Not only are you traveling free, you re getting paid for it, too.

The average cruise ship salary range is between $3,000 to $5,000 per month with zero living expenses and full insurance. The core sacrifice is being away from family for 4 to 6 months at a time. The core benefits are traveling the world, making great money, and meeting great people from around the world.

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Suppose you could get paid to travel to exotic destinations
around the world from the Caribbean to Australia? Suppose
you could live in luxury free of charge and make new
friends from around the world? Sounds like a dream come
true? This is the normal life for those who have cruise
ship jobs.

Cruise ship jobs are in hot demand due to the tax free
benefits, free travel, and the excitement of sailing upon
the high seas. Each day is a new adventure and thousands of
people are living their dreams. Cruise lines also provide
incredible benefits to employees such as excursions, room
and board, airfare, and a number of other benefits to
numerous to list.

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With Winter here, and the cold setting in, maybe it’s time to think about climates sunnier? One very popular solution is to “Get a cruise ship job!” Think about it, sailing around the Caribbean for 6 to 8 months at time, visiting idyllic islands everyday like Barbados, St. Thomas, Aruba, and the Bahamas. Oh and having great fun in the sun! This is exactly what I did for five years in a row, and you can do it too!

Now, before you run off and start blasting your resume out to every cruise ship company in the world there are a couple of things you need to think about. Although cruise ship life does have its perks,

I must warn you that it also has some ‘negatives’. First of all, you will probably be living in a room smaller than most walk-in closets, and sharing it with another person. Secondly, when you start to work for a cruise ship company, you will not have the freedom of “Land life”. As a cruise ship employee you will be under fairly strict rules and regulations (what you can and can’t do on the ship, crew curfews, what you can wear, and other rules).

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People tend to think a job on a cruise ship is a 24/7 vacation - just annoyingly interrupted by work. The brutal truth is: it’s 100 percent the other way around. It’s a 24/7 job - every now and then interrupted by some hours off. And it’s a job hard to escape. There is no going home after a long day.

A job on a cruise ship is a job with greater impact then most people think. Not just because of the long hours and hard work. It’s a job that is hard to get away from. How many people sleep in the office or the factory after a hard days work? That’s exactly what cruise ship employees do.

Home is work, work is home. There is no 9 to 5. There even aren’t any weekends. But there are always passengers. It takes a special kind of people who are able to cope with that.

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If you can’t afford to take a Caribbean cruise, why not work on a Caribbean cruise liner. There are many employment opportunities on cruise ships including housekeeping staffs, wait staff, activity planners and photographers. Other positions include deck officers, administrators and musicians. Some jobs, like diving instructors require that you be certified by NAUI, SSI or PADI and be certified in CRP. If you have experience in any or all of the above, then brush off your resume and send it to a cruise line employment office.

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