Great site here, glad I found it. I'll use the anonymous forum for my first question though.
Basically I have a place on container ships sorted but have not signed the contract yet. I am due to start in Warsash in september this years. I have been thinking about the career for a while now but have only really got a good idea about what it involves after my interview. Since then I have been having some serious doubts if this is the right thing for me or not. I am mainly worried about if I will like and adapt to life on boxboats where there are only a small number of crew. I worry that I might miss my friends and family who I am very close too. The lifestyle and living conditions are also far removed from how my life is at the moment. The massive amount of time away (8 months first phase and nearly a year in year 3) during training are a bit daunting to say the least.
It's not the job side of it that worries me at all, it's more the lifestyle and fitting in on a ship.
I just don't know what to do. I would ideally like another year to think about it and make sure I am doing it for the right reasons but would this effect things with my company if I kind of defered the place by a year? Is this even possible? Basically I have a good position with a good company but I wonder if starting the training with some serious doubts is the best thing to do.
Any advice?
Basically I have a place on container ships sorted but have not signed the contract yet. I am due to start in Warsash in september this years. I have been thinking about the career for a while now but have only really got a good idea about what it involves after my interview. Since then I have been having some serious doubts if this is the right thing for me or not. I am mainly worried about if I will like and adapt to life on boxboats where there are only a small number of crew. I worry that I might miss my friends and family who I am very close too. The lifestyle and living conditions are also far removed from how my life is at the moment. The massive amount of time away (8 months first phase and nearly a year in year 3) during training are a bit daunting to say the least.
It's not the job side of it that worries me at all, it's more the lifestyle and fitting in on a ship.
I just don't know what to do. I would ideally like another year to think about it and make sure I am doing it for the right reasons but would this effect things with my company if I kind of defered the place by a year? Is this even possible? Basically I have a good position with a good company but I wonder if starting the training with some serious doubts is the best thing to do.
Any advice?

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