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From: ER
Location: Ashore
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Remote Name: 67.236.131.32
Date: 01.30.09
Time: 08:25:12 PM
With no experience, you'd be limited to relief jobs, and even those are hard to come by right now. If some boats stay in layup this season, there will be a lot of experienced people available to fill any open positions. If you think you want to pursue it anyhow, you need to start the paperwork for your passport, MMD and TWIC right away because it can take about three months or more to get it all done even if everything goes ok. Bear in mind that if you have a felony conviction, some kinds of misdemeanor convictions (especially dealing with violence, making threats, or flouting authorities) or a DUI in your past, you're not going to pass the USCG background check and Homeland Security screening. And they find everything! As for unions on direct-hire boats, you have to work a certain length of time on the boat before you become a union member, and the minute you're out of work, you're not in the union anymore. You'd be Steelworkers Local 5000 or MEBA on direct-hire boats (unless AMO is representing unlicensed crewmembers for some direct-hire companies--I don't know of any that are).
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