After 2 years or relative meagerness, long tons of paperwork, over 50,000 nautical miles of apprenticeship, and 2 months of bureaucratic purgatory, I am now a licensed engineer in the US Merchant Marine. Went to pick up my license in Toledo yesterday, and sometime in the middle of the week I'm going to see if I can find a relief job over the holidays. The earliest I would head for orientation with the Military Sealift Command is the 2nd week of January, but if I can find a relief job it will probably be closer to the end of January. Likely once I start I'll be out for about 6 months and then decide whether I want to go out for another hitch or head somewhere else.
So anyway, there's the update. I'm done with school and ready to start working, which feels terrific.
Posted by ktismael at December 8, 2007 3:58 PMCongrats on finally reaching the end of your schooling and good luck with finding a job ! Hope you have time to enjoy the holidays with friends and family!
congratulations!
Posted by: Ada at December 12, 2007 3:28 PMCongratulations.
Now go fill some ballast tanks full of something that eats zebra mussels.
Wow... cool... I'm sure though you will never be "done" with school.
Posted by: Myk at February 12, 2008 5:22 PM