I really hope this is a good experience for you. You are so honest about what this is like for you. I give you a lot of credit for trying something new. You clearly are working a lot and for $2,000/month it seems pretty low but then you don't pay for accommodations and food so that is a plus. I hope you make more videos and build a nice group of followers. Best of luck!!!
Your English is incredible! I think you will move up quickly because you are so well spoken. I have had many waiters who were much much harder to understand.
We appreciate the enormous hours you put into your position. Stay the 6 months and give it a lot of thought re returning if conditions don't stay in line with what you expect. Happiness on board and acceptable payment for your work is essential.
I appreciate you for working on a cruise ship. As a frequent cruiser, I always wonder if the crew receive any of the gratuities that we pay. Princess charges each passenger $16 per person per day. I hope you receive some of that money.
I think your English skills and whatever other languages you speak will help you with other positions on the ship. You should be able to get a Waiter position soon even possibly on another ship. It takes time to get used to everything.
Thats crap pay for that many hours! Thats why i tip extra cash on top of my gratuities to the workers that go above and beyond and i can honestly tell you that it is greatly appreciated
Yes, it is crap pay for an 84 hr work week, no overtime esp from a billion $ industry.This is the best vid of its type I have seen, the info is clearly presented w/o any dubious double-talk...thanks.
As long as you keep paying their salaries the longer it will go on what you should be doing is pushing governments to make the cruise lines register their ships where the offices are for instance USA and this would then stop this nonsense.
We always give a thank you card with a tip for the waiter and assistant waiter. Do you get any of those and if so how much does that supplemental your income?
Cruise lines are not regulated, they can pay what ever they want. Virgin pay the most to their staff, they also do not add any gratuities to the customer's on-board account. All cruise lines should do the same.
I worked on a cruise. For many of the employees, it is a good living that would not happen in the home country. They work very hard and do the best possible service. If they were paid like US workers at say the minimum in California, the cruise line industry would fold. My humorous comment is on a long cruise, a woman asked me where all the single men were. She was raised on Cary Grant and Gracie Allen movies. I said that they were the guys on the deck playing shuffle board wearing oversized Hawaiian shirt, plaid shorts, white socks and black street shoes. The very cruises are those on which the number of passengers is limited to about 150 people. Try one of them. You will enjoy yourself.
We cruise extensively and after speaking to staff onboard, I now completed the compliment slips in order to help staff get promoted. QUESTION....from your perspective, do they work? Does this help? We equally give cash tips to waitstaff throughout our cruise!
Important information would be what country you are from and what is an average wage in your country. The reason this pay works is they are hiring from countries where that is a lot of money, especially when adding in room and board.
I agree! I pay my daily gratuities and tip extra to my wait staff, stateroom attendants, and bartenders.....etc. Are those tips being added to the monthly total?
@@brianbray2262 I have heard from other cruise vloggers that it depends on the cruise line as to how the gratuities are shared out, and that on some lines, they are shared among the "behind the scenes" staff (which would exclude the wait staff). It is really hard work for the money.
Since you have no actual living expenses, that isn't too bad for a job at the bottom of the pecking order - you could work a year and easily save $20K with some restraint. Those in better positions would obviously get paid more and save more.
@@walkinglife89 You need to change direction then - NO job or salary is worth your health. Self employment is the way to go these days - online business.
But he may have a wife and kids he has to support that arent on the ship. So he may have those costs. Maybe he owns a house, he still has those expenses
