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>>8516957

kek I was waiting for this response.

Classic inferiority complex kicking in navigators.

Let me give you a quick rundown. You work a dead-end job because you can't do anything else, well, except maybe sail a ferry. That's what you're gonna do for the rest of your life. Let that sink in for a moment.

You job consists of arriving on a ship, telling a steersman whether to turn 10 degrees to port, or starboard. You come aboard and they give you some coffee, maybe some food. The ship doesn't need you, but local maritime regulations require you to be there, and this eats you up inside. The captain still has responsibility for the ship, and doesn't even need you there.

Then, when it's time for you to leave the vessel, maybe, just maybe, you hope you fall in the water between the ship and the pilot boat, because that'll be the most exciting thing that's happened to you all year. Then you can tell your colleagues what happened and they can all oooh and ahh.

Oh, also, I'm a navigator, but decided it was too fucking boring, so I took up marine engineering. I have a world of jobs available to me, while you're stuck with maybe three different paths you can take.

Ferry captain, pilot, and working for a maritime authority.

KEK navigators, never change. So glad I got out of the marine industry.