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They are hiring again right now and are putting quite a few people through training classes and the like, unfortunately you won't be finding salary ranges because it is based off your experience and how well you are at negotiating your salary as well. They are a bit short on medical staff at...

They are starting to hire more U.K. Medics and some South African medics as well. We still have a decent amount of US medics but most are leaving for multiple reasons, mistreatment, fed up, schedule, money, etc. Depends on the time of the year which ports you're in. Caribbean typically Sept -...

Having your CC EMT-P doesn't hurt. One just got hired from Stl not long ago. National Registry, experience in high call volume areas and passing all 3 interviews certainly helps.

Retention is low because there's a ton of crap going on with scheduling. No one is happy about it but the issue is no medic wants to complain about it to the people that matter so it doesn't get fixed or prioritized as an issue that needs to be resolved. They are changing the format and testing...

We have a majority of medics that are American but they are starting to branch out more. I worked with a UK medic when I first started. Depends on where they are recruiting from though.

So I just got done training and they are expanding more paramedics into the other ships, Royal is allowing medics as one of the guys I trained with is going there tomorrow. The pay is good, and you do get your own cabin, they are more than accomodating for the medical staff. Yes there may not be...

Good lookin out, thank you for that. I'd love to be on the European route! I don't have any fleet contacts just yet but I'm sure I'll find out when I get to Houston. I'm gettin antsy, especially with this terrential downpour of snow in stl. 7 inches and counting. Get me outta here!

Don't have one. The subject line was Caribbean cruise and it's outta Galveston I imagine, I won't find out until I get to Houston in a few weeks. I'll hop online and check it out though. Thanks brother

Not sure if you've ever worked at Abbott, if you ever have and have heard of Tiger Woods. That'd be me. I have a reputation in Stl. Not a bad one I hope

I do have my itinerary. I fly out January 17 to Houston and training is for a week in Galveston. I imagine the contract will be somewhere in the Caribbean because that was in the subject line for my training schedule. Where exactly I'll find out when I get aboard the ship. Can't wait!

Cool, thanks brother. I already envision a gathering of us Ship Medics at a bar crawl...the horror....and lawyer fees. It'd be a night that'd be....wait for it.... Legendary

What about cell phones, I have a iPhone 5 with AT&T. I see there's an Internet cafe with wifi, I imagine it'd be cheaper to connect to the ships wifi and use Skype or tango when calling home or what is the best method?

Still waiting on that, should be getting it shortly. I thought about even bringing my xbox but figured that may be to much to bring. Figured handful of shorts and jeans, enough shirts to last 2 weeks and that's it. I didn't know about 24 on 24 off, I thought it was working all 7 days a week at 8...

Awesome, thanks. I'll be revising my suitcase then. What would you say like, pack enough clothes for two weeks and that's it? I did wanna bring a few medic books to read over every now and then. Tablet and my psp.

Just wanted to give everyone an update, my start date is January 18 and I believe I will be on the Caribbean contract. Got everything lined up and just waiting for my itinerary. Emtp2010stl if you are on in January that'd be pretty cool to be on the same boat. Once I officially know more as far...