OFFSHORE insight part 4

Working offshore Cons Part 1

This is a continuation of  the offshore cons in 'Offshore insight part 3' and these are listed below:

• Breakfast is early, at 5: 30 a.m. and working offshore can be tiring so you have to wake up earlier to get ready.

•  Juggling work and school can be demanding. I have missed many classes due to my unpredictable schedule and it is also challenging trying to do assignments being tired and having unreliable Wi-Fi

• The sea can be very rough and when there is bad whether the platform can rock violently

• There are endless stairs EVERYWHERE!!!. From your room to the kitchen can be almost 100 stairs

• There are usually a few phones on the platform but there are a lot of people to share it with, so you end up waiting your turn and then try to talk quickly so someone else can have the phone

•     Although the chefs are great ,the food there can be horrible sometimes. The cow heel soup is particularly not palatable

•     The alarms that go off are very annoying with the flashing lights and loud sounds. they can go off any time even 2 am the morning. It does not matter what you are doing you have to immediately meet at the muster point and line up. I was bathing once and had to rush out to muster point, my clothes were soaking  xD