GIMME SOME ADVICE!!!

[Big Willie]

Actually, i would love your help. Does anyone in the U.S. own a hotel/pub where i could get some decent work with live-in accomodation. if you can leave a thread or e-mail me. i just fancy a change of scenery, a better climate, new friends - know the feeling?
Thankyou
Big Will

 

[Cheri]

You don't ask for alot, do you? Why don't you add 'And make it a strip club so I have good scenery'.
Don't mind me...(walking off snickering at my own wittiness)

 

[Guest]

Try looking for job listings on the net.
Most jobs that provide housing are way out in the sticks or really low pay. You might try and get on with an offshore drilling company but usually they prefer help with a little experience. Sometimes you can get an apartment thrown in if you manage or maintain an apartment complex. With winter coming on some of the ski resorts might be hiring and have lodging.

Sorry to post under another name but can't leave a cookie on this machine. I am away from home and working somewhere that wouldn't like me visiting here.

Good luck
Fallen Angel

 

[Never]

Um. You do know you can post under your user name without leaving a cookie, don't you?

 

[Bliss]

Being cookieless doesn't keep the sites visited out of the history file. I don't remember for IE off of the top of my head but each page you visit in Netscape is stored in the history file for as many days as specified. Also, if the info is going through any sort of firewall, they gotcha again.

Big Will, just move to Key West and get a job at Margaritaville.

 

[RonG]

There is a business (can't remember the name) that sets up "authentic" Irish/British pubs here in the states. They are always looking for help to create that image. In Atlanta, there is one called Fado and I know there are a few elsewhere across the states. Perhaps with a little search you can hook up with these folks and become part of the scenery in these dioramas.

 

[RisiaSkye]

Tour ships

One option is to go to work on a cruise ship for a while. The pay is decent, there are lots of people in bathing suits on board all the time, the staff is in high demand in all respects, and you live on board for months at a time. This means docking in cities from Florida to Jamaica for partying, with somewhere to crash and a built in permanent summer job. A few of my friends have done it, and recommended it highly.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Cruise ships are an excellent idea. I worked many for years, and I noticed that, on the American ships, anyway, the entertainers were mostly Americans, the Stewards were often third world (like the Phillipines), the officers were all Nordic, the shop girls and guys were all British, and so were the casino dealers. The bartenders always seemed to be a mix.

The ships themselves aren't actually American, they're all registered in tiny countries like Liberia, so be careful about your papers, and don't go on board with any serious medical conditions (though the lines all advertise that they have a "North American Doctor" on board they're sometimes just students or General Practitioners who skipped the "Eyes and Ears" part and only got a "D" in "Throat").

The money's okay, but you sock it away because you save on room, board, gas, utilities, etc. And if you want to stay close to the states there are plenty of "day trip" cruises or week long excursions that leave out of New York or Miami or Los Angeles and return quickly.

 

[BeautyBabe]

DCL, do you know anything about the spa facilities on the cruise ships? I'm going later this year as a Beauty Therapist, and just wondered.

 

[Naked Hunny]

ok gots a question!!!

DCL, darlin, is there anything you havent done? Im being serious i feel like i am such a loser when you talk about your life. All ive done is graduate high school and pop out a youngun'!!!

 

[Siren]

As DCL's offcial PR spokeswoman........

 

[April]

LMFAO, Siren!

Second thought. That's what I get for staying up so late. Anyway, I was thinking about the cruise ship idea. Can anybody point me in the right direction to go about doing this? Instead of me flailing blindly around the internet, that is. Thanks.

[Edited by April on 08-22-2000 at 12:27 AM]

 

[BeautyBabe]

April, I've got my job via Steiner Transocean. They emply most of the leisure staff for all the ships (Therapists, fitness instructors, receptionists etc) I think in the US, they're based in Miami.

Other than that, try checking the classified at the back of magazines like Cosmo. In the UK, you usually find ads agencies who can help you.

Might see you on ship at some point!

 

[Flagg]

With winter coming on some of the ski resorts might be hiring and have lodging.

Have you ever read The Shining!???

 

[April]

Thanks, BeautyBabe.

LMAO at Flagg

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Spa facilities vary from ship to ship, but most have massage, steam rooms, weight and exercise rooms, areobics classes, organized runs around the deck, some beauty treatment stuff, etc.

I have never popped out a kid, but I did mix the batter for two of them.

Cruise Lines like Carnival, Holland America and others have very good web sites that tell you exactly how to apply for a job in a variety of categories, as well as answering in detail some FAQ about life aboard the ships,including how to avoid the little boy running around screaming "Redrum... Redrum...". The web sites are the best place to start.

Back to you, Siren.

 

[Siren]

Okay DCL........... < grabbing the microphone>