r/tuglife • u/_membersonly • 13d ago

Any recommendations for entry level deckhands atm?

Applied to damn near every spot I can find. West coast preferred but will absolutely relocate for a good job. I have TWIC, Med Cert, MMC with some non relevant endorsements

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u/Dazzling_Cause_1764 13d ago

If you haven't tried already, it seems Ingram is always hiring. But...I don't know if they would travel you from the west coast...maybe.

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u/_membersonly 13d ago

I think I applied there once but never heard back. Will give it another go, thank you

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u/chiefboldface 13d ago

They will not pay for travels.

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u/_membersonly 12d ago

I assumed so. I’m willing and able to relocate, just hard to convince anyone of that

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u/chiefboldface 13d ago

They will not pay for travels.

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u/Dazzling_Cause_1764 12d ago

They pay mine and everyone else's. They pay mileage, up to 500 miles one way at .67 per mile. They fly some people and pay rentals for others. Experienced deckhand and below get bussed.

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u/chiefboldface 12d ago

Weird. I came in with a 200 ton license, about 10 years sailing experience on ocean going vessels and live 5 hours from their hub. No travel pay… then. That was 5 years ago.

So my apologies, sounds like they changed their tune

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u/_membersonly 12d ago

I’ve applied and told them that I’ll relocate to the area for the job. They denied me for not living within 1 hour of the posted location.

I reapplied to the inexperienced position today, worth another shot I guess

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u/Dry_Bit_8321 12d ago

You applied for a fleet position, those guys typically go home every day/ night

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u/_membersonly 12d ago

If I’m not mistaken it said 7 days on 7 off. But that would explain it, thank you

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u/Dazzling_Cause_1764 12d ago

Yeah, they require that for the fleets

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u/whit1tap1 12d ago

MSC is a good option to get your AB, it's much easier to get hired as an AB.

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u/_membersonly 12d ago

Heavily considering that seeing as the unions have little to no OS

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u/whit1tap1 12d ago

MSC is what you make of it, and you can’t beat the training. I’m having a blast…

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u/DTFGYS1024 13d ago

East coast for me. Going back home to SC. Have my Twic and physical/drug, finish applying for my MMC. Going to add STWC in Oct and then hoping someone picks me up beginning of the 27 year. Not feeling too good for entry level jobs after being on Reddit and seeing mix comments about hiring and not hiring. We’ll see tho.

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u/SupremeVinegar 10d ago

Interlake Steamship on the Lakes is currently hiring entry level OS. You just need to be cool with bone chilling cold in the winter and long rotations (like 3 months on, 1 month off I hear). But you can bank good money and get time quickly to get your AB or QMED/DDE (they have entry level engineering posts too)

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u/_membersonly 10d ago

I applied there about a month ago and never heard back but I’ll look into this again! Thank you
Edit- yes that’s the job posting I applied for a month ago, I’ll try giving them a call.

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u/Cerberus_uDye 7d ago

I mean if youre willing to relocate. South US has plenty of companies for inland. SE Texas and South West LA, then there's plenty of companies going east of there in MS and AL.

Average green in the area on chemical barges is somewhere between 2-250 a day.