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Ray Shields
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SGB,

…you can secure a job offer on your personality, with your qualifications being that added bonus.

I would HOPE that Ops managers are taking qualifications and experience into account! All very well having someone who is a pleasure to work with, but no good when the ROV breaks down and you ask them to go and drill a 8mm hole in sluminium and they look at you as if you are talking a foreign language!

Unfortunately, a lot of us see this or similar more and more offshore. People think we are just old farts because "back in our day" you wouldn’t make a Pilot Tech for at LEAST 2 years of work offshore. Nowadays some thing they should be a Sub Engineer after one.

You can spend 4 years doing drill support work and then get stuck on a survey job where you end up looking like you’ve only being doing the job for 6 months. There are many variable in ROVs – from different vehicle to different job tasks to different work platforms.

This forum is very useful for new people to get into the rov industry, there are twats on every forum in every walk of life. On here, most people are anonymous so maybe say things they woudnt say if people knew who they are. The majority of people are happy to help. It can get wearing when the hundredth person comes on and their first message posted is "how do I become an ROV pilot" without bothering to read any of the FAQs, any of the messages or even to bother look up ROVs on Google! Sometimes it can get fustrating 😀

But in the main, I think people do get a lot of help on here, just remember not to feed the Trolls 🙂

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