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Fish processor job in Alaska (or Seatle) how to get the gig?
Also, lit/ professions thread.

>> No.17660956

>>17660943
The ones on the factory boats are almost all filipinos now.

>> No.17660963

thats a man

>> No.17660968

>>17660943
How many squats a day does it take?

>> No.17660970

>>17660963
Would still smash.

>> No.17660975

>>17660956
>The ones on the factory boats are almost all filipinos now.
So, how do I become a filipino?
Also, WHY this specific nationality?

>> No.17660985

>>17660975
Who knows? Probably some combination of recruiters and family/community connections. You don't want to work with a bunch of filipinos.

>> No.17660987

>>17660943
In Alaska you just show up and sign a contract.

>>17660956
That is because they are the ones willing to do it. They will take anyone and it pays well, you work long hours and get nothing if you do not fulfill your end of the contract, which is generally three or six months of nothing but fish gutting.

t. made 30k spending 12 hours a day six days a week wait deep in fish.

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>>17660943

>> No.17660999

>>17660987
forgot to say, that 30k was for three months of smelling like fish.

>> No.17661000

>>17660975
Cheap, hardworking, have a culture of working abroad away from families for long periods of time, an Island nation with lots of fisherman, an most flips speak good English.

Mono-cultural crew means greater cohesion.

>> No.17661002

I am looking for temporary gigs, bros. Especially abroad (that is, if the money is worthy it).

>> No.17661019

>>17660985
>You don't want to work with a bunch of filipinos.
Why? They can't be that bad, c'mon.
Kek

>> No.17661030

>>17660975
25% of marine-cargo related job workers are Filipinos.

>> No.17661041

>>17661000
>Cheap, hardworking, have a culture of working abroad away from families for long periods of time, an Island nation with lots of fisherman, an most flips speak good English.
>Mono-cultural crew means greater cohesion.
Well, well. So Call me Ishmael.
Here I go if they give me the chance (and that's precisely the problem...).

>> No.17661042

>>17661000
This.

>> No.17661088

>>17660987
>In Alaska you just show up and sign a contract.
And what about immigration issues?
I'm not a murrican. My intention is just to show-up, do my job for a couple of months and then fuck-off.

Is that feasible?
How long lasts a temporary visa?
Can I legally work while there?

I don't wanna go there for nothing.
Alaska is too cold, bros. And my money is too light. So give me precise data.
I know you can.

>> No.17661100

>>17660968
>How many squats a day does it take?
For what? That ass in inborn.

>> No.17661102

>>17660943
Imagine being such a pleb that you want to butcher fish in the middle of nowhere

>>17660956
And imagine being such a failure of a pleb that you get outcompeted by a bunch of third worlders lmao

God white people are so pathetic

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17661119

>>17661102
>Imagine being such a pleb that you want to butcher fish in the middle of nowhere
No problem. You'll be the first on the rope for mocking the hopeless.
When the time comes...

>> No.17661128

>>17661088
When I did it there was a good number of immigrants on work visas, at least half the people. I have no idea what they did to get the visa. Contact a few processors, I suspect they have the process fairly well worked out, they may cover all the paper work for anyone willing to sign up. The wash out rate is high and they always need people, the only reason it was 12 hour shifts for 6 days a week when I was there was because there was not enough people, they would happily pay the same for 8 hour shifts and there were a handful of weeks were that is all it was.

>>17661102
Give it a go, you can make well over 100k a year, if you spend a few years at it and get to the point you can gut anything, you will double that pay. You probably would wash out in the first week, bravado never lasted.

>> No.17661183

>>17661128
>Contact a few processors
How would I do it? I don't know anyone, unfortunatelly.

>> No.17661198

>>17661183
Seriously? Do you not even know google?
https://jobs.alaska.gov/seafood/processing.html
First link, looks like the Alaska gov has plenty of information to get you started.

>> No.17661203

>>17660975
nepotism. most people in the world are highly nepotistic so as soon as one gets in a position of power only their ethnic group (at best) or family/friends (at worst) get jobs. also, if they speak their own language while working it bars others anyway.

>> No.17661242

>>17661203
Hahaha. You really think people are trying to get their family ahead in life by having them standing waist deep in fish for 12 hours a day? Nepotism does not exist in fish gutting and language does not matter. The vast majority of people walk away in the first week, they just can not imagine spending 12 hours a day waist deep in fish for the next three to six months. They will literally take anyone who shows up.

>> No.17661419

>>17661198
>>17661198
I was seeing the institutional video you sent and reading the pdf with info. Thanks!!!

>Seriously? Do you not even know google?
I mean, I wanted to know someone in a similar situation (a foreign worker) who actually went there and had a first-hand experience.
I wanted to talk with these people. Where may I find them?
I know you actually went there. But you're an american, I suppose, right?

>> No.17661426

>>17661242
>The vast majority of people walk away in the first week, they just can not imagine spending 12 hours a day waist deep in fish for the next three to six months. They will literally take anyone who shows up.
How much did you make, friend?
How long is the fishing season?
How long are the usual contracts?

>> No.17661436

Blue board BTW

>> No.17661445

>>17661100
Naw

>> No.17661449

>>17661436
>Blue board BTW
There's nothing here you can't see on the beach.

>> No.17661451

>>17660975
smart enough to work efficiently but also willing to do it for rock-bottom wages

>> No.17661456

>>17661445
>Naw
ITT: The flat-ass gringo.

>> No.17661464

>>17661451
>smart enough to work efficiently but also willing to do it for rock-bottom wages
So... Chinese, you mean?

>> No.17661467

>>17661456
rude but true