The Secret Lives Of Cruise Ship Workers

You Don’t Get Days Off

If you’re the kind of person who savors your weekends, avoid working on a cruise ship at all costs. Most cruise ship workers don’t get a single day off. Typically, they’re contracted for nine months at a time and work straight through.

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It’s not absolutely terrible, though. The crew works every day but on a rotational basis. Instead of having full days off, workers get hours of downtime every day that they can spend on themselves. Reading a book with a nice ocean view or taking a dip in the crew pool doesn’t sound bad at all! While not having consecutive days off might be tough at first, once the routine is established, it gets easier. And when their contract is up, they get a nice two-month long vacation. Think of all the stuff you’d do if you had two months off. We wonder if any of them take a cruise!