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July 04, 2004 You don't need to suffer a bad job or no job at all. Imagine some possibilities. Discover your options. Consider Commercial Diving Academy. We are more than a school that offers training in commercial diving. We offer you options. Consider this: an entry level job, in great demand, that offers an average salary with overtime around $46,000 per year. Is that an option you're interested in? Recent headlines and news releases suggest that the employment situation in the United States is on the mend. For example, recent Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) figures say that payroll employment increased by a total of 947,000 in the last three months. But there seems to be a disconnect between the official numbers and reality. Comstock Partners highlights this disconnect with the observation that "According to consumer surveys most people, answering on the basis of personal experience, feel that the labor picture is weak, and it is possible that this belief reflects more reality than the official numbers." (See Phantom Jobs?) Perhaps your personal experience doesn't match the headlines you see. If you're out of work or feel stuck in a dead-end, boring job, Commercial Diving Academy offers you some good options. In addition to the training we offer for careers in commercial diving, an Able Seaman (AB) training program is coming soon to Commercial Diving Academy. An Able Seaman is skilled labor aboard a vessel. Able Seamen, usually called an AB, are responsible for steering a ship, acting as a lookout, patrolling a ship to look for problems, using deck machinery to accomplish different tasks, supervising Ordinary Seamen, and helping to keep a ship maintained. Able Seamen are in great demand, not only in this country, but around the world. The Europa website says the following about the maritime industry: "Despite that, this industry suffers from a lack of qualified European seafarers. In 2002, the shortage of officers was around 30,000, that is to say a deficit of 30% of the need to man the some 10,000 ships of this European fleet. There is therefore a very acute need for seafaring skills and maritime expertise not only at sea but also ashore, as the seafaring profession is a key gateway to a multiplicity of interesting appointments in shore based maritime activities." (See Maritime Careers) What options do you have as an Able Seaman? The possibility cited in the opening paragraph of this article is an example of an average wage, with overtime, for an AB working in a civilian capacity for the Military Sealift Command. Blanche Evans observes that "Despite recent reports of hundreds of thousands of jobs gained, we have experienced the longest period of job loss since the Great Depression through the first half of 2004." (See The Perfect Real Estate Storm). If you find your own career prospects to be depressing, consider the options you'll find at Commercial Diving Academy. Shoot us an email or give us a call to get more details on what we can do for you. Come back often to our site for future articles and updates. Discover your options with Commercial Diving Academy. Copyright 2003, 2004. |
