Does your tablet keeping you up at night? Are you playing video games or watching a movie before you sleep? Using electronics such a computers, TV’s and tablets for 2 hours and just before bed can negatively affect your sleep. A new study from the Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer
Does your tablet keeping you up at night? Are you playing video games or watching a movie before you sleep? Using electronics such a computers, TV’s and tablets for 2 hours and just before bed can negatively affect your sleep. A new study from the Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer
What other job in the world on this floating tin can is it possible to converse with so many different cultures while franticly interacting with the 3 different massive industries from a people packed deck, deafening engine room and guests from hotel hell. These amazing experiences give us wonderful “Ah Ha” moments that change our lives,
Ship Sleeplessness Title 2: Why you should put the ipad down before falling asleep Does your tablet keeping you up at night? Are you playing video games or watching a movie before you sleep? Using electronics such a computers, TV’s and tablets for 2 hours and just before bed can negatively affect your sleep. A new
Depending on when someone was born is what generation they belong to. Let’s look at different generations from the ones listed below. Each generation has particular characteristics of how they behave, what they like and don’t like. This is based on what each generation was exposed to growing up, whether it is technology, politics, war,
The Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) survey is the leading measure of burnout with a high validity rate. The same three MBI surveys were given to a on board Front Office team at the start, middle, and end of the 7 sessions. The MBI-General Survey measures employee relationships with work on a continuum from engagement to
The Venting Room Venting can be described as an emotional focused tactic (Brown et al, 2005). The source of venting is at the core of all humans, emotion. Emotions are what drive us to react to a particular situation and play an important role in the workplace that influences attitudes and behaviors (Brown, Westbrook
You see a glass with water that is only at half of the capacity it can hold. Do you see it as half empty or half full? Some would say that those that see it as half full are optimistic and those that see it as half empty view things from a more pessimistic perspective.
1) Increased workload- in the past on turnaround days, guests would be off by 10:30am and embarkation would start at 1:30pm. Now when the last guest is off, embarkation starts. Crew must work faster to ‘turn over’ the ship for the new guests 2) Undermanning- there are major shortages in the deck and engine departments
Tired, stressed and still have a long way to go in your contract? Fatigue and stress are normal human responses. What can become abnormal is when stress and fatigue are not managed and continue to take a toll on your body. Left untreated, fatigue and stress can cause a host of physical and mental health
Working on a cruise ship, you have the world at your feet. Despite ports in different parts of the world, how often do you actually get ashore and with sufficient time for yourself? Do you work sometimes for a week and not see the light of day? Then you realize your work and life are
Putting on a happy face when we are not so happy is no easy task working the contract the lengths and long hours in a day that we seafarers work. The last thing you want to do is smile and be friendly when you learn of bad news from home, upsetting conversation on the phone
Believe it or not, your opinion matters. Believe it not you can help yourself and others. Believe it or not we’re not trying to kill you, not on my watch at least. Change starts here and with YOUR voice! Opinions save crucial situations that cost people money, time and stress that leads to the ever
Wellness on board can come in different doses of improving, elevating, and amplifying oneself. Wellness is about being balanced when work and life are not so in balance on board. It’s the life ring of coping on a sea that never sleeps. Home life/family Feeling a disconnect from home being so far apart? This is
Revenue, sales, and ratings are fierce and what drives profitability in a cutthroat cruise market. Seafarers’ golden rule, never walk through a closing watertight door. The hydraulic closing pressure of these doors is immense and can kill. I use this pressure analogy with the pressure when working at sea. Despite such work pressure, seafarers are
There is ship phenomenon that I never understood; working the same day that you join a ship. It sounds straightforward. You arrive at your workplace and so you start work. Sounds simple, right? But your commute to work is several continents away from home. Then in order to get to work you have to see
On ships, relationships develop at a faster rate than on land. After the hook-up, the next cruise you are moving in together (usually the one with the single and bigger cabin). The cruise after that you are planning vacations together. Then ultimately you are trying to get your contracts matched on the same ship next
So it’s the end of your long contract. Your irritability, fatigue and agitation has been visible to guests and your colleagues alike for weeks now, maybe even months. When you are at the end, this is what happens and naturally it is very different than the beginning of your contract. At the start you were
Feeling tired? Try this for a motivational minute pick me up. Find a place where you can sit safe and quietly. Close your tired eyes. Take a deep long breath, imagine inhaling your bad feelings of stress deep into your body. Exhale very slowly while you imagine the stress being pushed out through your lips.
