van_Zeller

I met a girl once who told me that, in many ways, cruise ship work is like a trap. You get on the boat and you work your ass off, spend very little money and thus earn a lot. Once this trip is over, you return home, but there is no work quite like it (and none that pays as well). So you get on another boat.

As time goes by, you become specialized, the pay gets better, but all the while your friends ashore have moved on with their lives and you were not there, so your connection with them fades. Instead you make new friends in each boat you're in, but it's people that perhaps you will never see again.

The last thing she told me was that all the people on the boat are constantly bitching that they want to return home. But when they're home they immediately get on another boat, because for them, there is no "home".

Any comments?

As I think this question will be possibly what interests people the most, I would suggest that you put it in the main body.

When she told me, it felt so. Especially the part where your friends get new jobs, girlfriends, wives and kids and you are not there, because you are always on board. So you inevitably atrition sets in and you lose the connection you once had with them. In the end, the boat is your home and the staff are your family...but it's fucked up because it's always a new boat and a new family.

If I had more cameras I would certainly deliver

Trust me, a straight forward answer is delivery enough. I for one happen to think that doing that joke a third time gets old (yes, another guy over at mildly interesting did that).

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