How hard do you think it'd be to get a job as a crab fisher?

[Ulyaoth]

I've been thinking, since I don't have a chance to get into a good college, and honestly don't even really want to go to college, maybe I'd just go to alaska and get a job as a lumberjack or crab fisherman with a friend of mine who would gladly go with me. But on the show they were talking about how a bunch of ships stop fishing and people lost jobs and I got the thought it'd be really hard to get a job. Would you guys think so too?

I'm thinking maybe I'll just spend the next few months bulking up, getting stronger, then we'll fly up there and get a job. I know some(or most) of you will call me stupid or something but whatever.

 

[Godwynn]

If you have a good season you can make some mad $$$ for only three or four months worth of work.

The downside is the whole death thing if it happens.

 

[Communisto]

What about the French foreign legion? Is that still cool or does it suck now like everything else?

 

[Demetrias]

I've been thinking, since I don't have a chance to get into a good college, and honestly don't even really want to go to college, maybe I'd just go to alaska and get a job as a lumberjack or crab fisherman with a friend of mine who would gladly go with me. But on the show they were talking about how a bunch of ships stop fishing and people lost jobs and I got the thought it'd be really hard to get a job. Would you guys think so too?

I'm thinking maybe I'll just spend the next few months bulking up, getting stronger, then we'll fly up there and get a job. I know some(or most) of you will call me stupid or something but whatever.

It is probably not hard to get hired it is really hard to get called back after your green horn year. You also don't make any money the first year.

 

[Demetrias]

What about the French foreign legion? Is that still cool or does it suck now like everything else?

I heard its still pretty cool and they are complete bad***** from a British dude who had served with some British soldiers who did it. But I think you lose your US citizenship if you do it. Or at least thats what your passport seems to say. I wish you could do it though. I would love to have dual US and French Citizenship.

 

[Communisto]

I've always had the idea that if my life fell completely down the crapper I'd join the Legion. But I heard they don't actually do any ass kicking anymore and they just run in the desert.

 

[Demetrias]

Who do you think the United Nations soldiers in Africa are? Their French Foreign Legion soldiers in large part because the US wont send soldiers to Africa.

 

[emzie]

You would only loose your citizenship if you served in the French Foreign Legion and France went to war with the US. It would also be illegal to be recruited to join the FFL in the US, but not illegal for you to go there with the intent of joining.

http://travel.state.gov/law/citizenship/citizenship_780.html

the Supreme Court indicated that a U.S. citizen "has a constitutional right to remain a citizen... unless he voluntarily relinquishes that citizenship."

...

Military service in foreign countries usually does not cause loss of citizenship since an intention to relinquish citizenship normally is lacking. Service as a high-ranking officer, particularly in a policy-making position, could be viewed as indicative of an intention to relinquish U.S. citizenship.

 

[Communisto]

Who do you think the United Nations soldiers in Africa are? Their French Foreign Legion soldiers in large part because the US wont send soldiers to Africa.

Awesome, awesome to the max.

 

[Ulyaoth]

It is probably not hard to get hired it is really hard to get called back after your green horn year. You also don't make any money the first year.

Yeah, seems like from that show they tend to get pissed off at greenhorns a lot, which is why I want to get in shape so I'm not too weak or have enough stamina for the work or anything like that.


Maybe if I'm lucky I could get on the Norwegian boat, they seem to pay a lot and be really awesome.

 

[emzie]

If you're in it for the money, come work in Alberta's oil fields.

 

[Demetrias]

Or you could come to Texas where it isn't that cold and work on the Oil platforms in the Gulf. You have to be willing to work hard and get dirty and not see land for six weeks but it pays real good and its really nice weather.


P.S. If you know how to underwater weld then you can make like 150 grand a year down here.

 

[ohcrapitsnico]

From what I can see its long laborious dangerous work in a harsh, unbelieveably cold climate in one of the roughest seas in the world. If I were you I would look for another job. Thats what I get from just watching the show.

 

[Ulyaoth]

the show actually made the job look more reasonable from what I've always thought it to be.

 

[ohcrapitsnico]

the show actually made the job look more reasonable from what I've always thought it to be.

Really? Well I knew nothing about crab fishing before I saw the show so it definitely looked dificult to me. I don't like boats and I can get a little sea sick in bad weather so that made it look harder of course.

 

[Ulyaoth]

the only thing that looked absolutely horrible was the ice in the opilio season, god that looks annoying to have to go smashing ice off the whole boat, and it seems like the most dangerous part.

 

[Naval Power]

My friend Bubba owns a shrimp boat and is lookin for a first mate.

 

[sourboy]

I know a guy who did it 6 months, then opened his own cyber cafe with the earnings. It's still run today. He and his regulars play mmo's together and he gets to live off the earnings of their rentals.

 

[Mulholland]

If you don't want to go the standard education route you could always do the trade. I.e get certified as a welder (less than one year) and come work in Alberta as a guest worker on the pipe lines. You'd rake in the cash over the course of a few years and then you could do what you wanted (Such as the cafe thing that sourboy mentioned.)

 

[sirdanilot]

I've seen a show about crabfishing on discovery and it seems to be the most horrible job in existance, on a boat in wild seas and it's always cold and it rains (or snows), and those crabs aren't the nicest fuzzy animals on earth either...