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Originally Posted by swamp snorkler
I know the owners or Lafourche Merchant Marine School, they are non-stop busy. everybodies is looking to upgrade thier license.
I didn't know the big boat captains were making that much. When I wasn working in the yard I got to know the captain of the liftbaot we were working on pretty good. He said he was makin $685 a day. I was like damn that's pretty good money. He claims he's underpaid. He said you have to be a safety manager, a mechanic, a hotel manager, a transportation coordinator, a restaurant manager, crane operator, house keeping manager all rolled into one......... plus you need to know how to drive a 150'x90' barge with 3-285' legs sticking up in the air around.
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We are all underpaid! A wise Asian man (VP of R&D at my last job) told me when I was leaving to "always remember, we all are underpaid because people pay you for what you've done and proven capable of in the past, not necessarily what you do today". The job you get next is usually higher paying, and is a reflection of what you did before.