Reply To: Looking for ROV training and job

Hi Vuk,

Firstly good on you for completing your engineering course

I was in your situation many years ago and recruited by a service company that was partly owned by an oil company; actually I was recruited from a refinery..

That was a long time ago and when the industry was at that point; relatively new with companies that moved from buying ROV systems to building their own and logically to have their own staff

It was a boom time and they got paid well so they could build good equipment, have good people offshore and a full support basis onshore…after that everything went downhill…

First came >>
we want you to be regular day-rate person
Second came >>
we don’t mind if you work for someone else
Third came >>
we prefer if you work thru agencies
Fourth came>>
go get this or that otherwise we can’t hire you
Fifth came >>
things are tough can you work for less, do longer trips, can you fly yourself there and we don’t pay travel days
Now came >>
Endless people with no jobs, saturated dog-eat-dog, industry that is on its knees

So my advice to you is

Go find a stable onshore job that you can work five days a week and have weekends off doing what you like and have a life

Either that or find a time machine to ‘go back when it was excellent’ or forward to’ when it will start all over’

As for now…forget ROV offshore career because its simply not there (especially for new entry)

Its a waste of your enthusiasm

Sorry to give a grim overview but its reality