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why does your opinion matter? either they superscore or they dont. period end.

Robert Kiyosaki made 42,000 per year as a 3rd Mate aboard Standard Oil tanker fleet in the early 70s. That is over 300K adjusted for inflation today. embarrassing.

Why are you multiplying the bonus by 11? It's a one time payment.

Has nothing to do with desperate or not. I am right, no probably there. Do you know anything more than from reading the internet? more than someone actually at MSC?

3rd Mate and Master will be fine and both still working for MSC. Probably a write up for a 3M and a refresher on BRM and MSC SMS for the master. He's a federal employee with many years federal service -- if they did want to take him off the ship they'd have to offer an equivalent position in the...

I remember when they upgraded the tables and chairs my senior year and it was a big change. Food though remained the same though.

Seabulk does and operates 4 ATBs as well. As a cadet an ATB would not benefit you really at all compared with a tanker. I would go with a tanker. More crew to learn from since the ATBs operate with minimal crew / half the people really. Tankers are pretty plentiful but I would try to get one in...

Hardly a labyrinth these days. There's a pretty defined plan for any SWO (Qualified OOD) to convert to 3/M and the USCG has a chat available to get information on it. Additionally, there's a defined way for someone with any engineering degree to convert to a 3AE license with seatime/exams. All...

How is advertising graduates correlated with the curriculum of the school? He is right, day to day school work and regimental life are 100% geared towards merchant sailing. MSC has nothing to do with this. vastly different? in terms of the day to day job there are differences, although I...

Foreign flag vessels other than drill rigs/LNG carriers, etc pay peanuts in general and less than you would earn working at Starbucks. If you want to work on them that's your choice. More demand for engineers, however the engineering degree at KP is not equivalent to a traditional engineering...

No you can't. If the sailing job market continues the way it is now you definitely can't. If the sailing market free falls by the time you graduated, which is actually pretty likely, then you may be able to. Basically all depends on what happens in 3 years.

This has nothing to do with keeping up with people. Merchant Marine officer pay is highly stagnant. Airlines and UPS drivers have had far better deals and wage hikes. If you are going to be part of a trade (glorified tradeschool) you might as well choose one where the workers are in the drivers...

Great, what school can the student sailing 10-11 months a year at MSC with sub dial up speed internet get his or her MBA from? Must be a diploma mill. I’m sure the professors would be very understanding in other cases of you having to get up and leave every 75 days (JA tanker schedule) and...

The money hasn't kept up with the general growth of wages in different industries (i.e. Airlines, UPS Drivers, etc). Working for Military Sealift Command you average 1-2 Months off per year and 10-11 Months working. Your per day/per hour rate is quite terrible. Starting your life at 27 puts...

You can write that as many times as you want but that doesn’t make it true. (Speaking about traditional MBA programs here.) Broad trend among corporate professionals is to pursue professional/executive “weekend MBA” programs rather than full time programs. This is due to massive opportunity cost...

Yes you did and your comment was unfounded because the two issues are unrelated. KP is not the only source of merchant marine officers. Being a ship's officer does not require even a high school education and there are certainly people out there today sailing as master or chief engineer without...

How does the mariner shortage have anything to do with how "hard" KP is? Once you graduate and go to the fleet a license is a license regardless of if or where you went to school. If you fail at KP you can easily transfer to another school or hawsepipe to get your license. People also...

Try the electric grid blowing out during finals week, being out for weeks, and the school having to keep Delano open all night for us to study in.

So your plan is for students who are basically midshipmen in a NROTC program that they cannot accept active duty commissions into the Navy (or other services)? The student cannot go active duty from a service academy? This is part of a cycle in which in another few years there will be no jobs...

Actually no. Neither of those go into depth with commercial topics. Tradewinds News or Lloyd's list. Tradewinds has a one month subscription for $4. Read as much as you can. Both are for free once youre a student at KP. Once youre a student read as much as you can every day.