ECUDiver wrote:> I really love diving and want to turn it into a career. I am still> doing research before I make the plunge. What is the best PADI school> for your IDC? Is Utilla better than Prodive in Ft. Lauderdale?
Don't know if it matters. Maybe job placement might.
What kind of jobs do you get when you go all the way through to> instructor? My ideal job would be working in a resort in the Caribbean> preferrably on a dive boat. I could even wait tables on the side if I> had to until I got the right job.
Good luck. And you would most likely have to wait tables and do dishes in order to make a living.
My instructor said that divemasters stay "bent" all the time. Is that> really true and wouldn't that be really damaging to their body?
DM's do a lot of the "grunt" work that instructors don't want to do. I guess it is their way of "it rolls downhill" for them. When they were DM's they too were "slaves". Now that they are free to "own" the "slaves" they make them work. As for being "bent".... not likely. Remember, it is the DM's that do the grunt work while the instructor tries to hit on the female students.
Any advice or experience you have in this area would be appreciated.> Thanks.
The pay is terrible. The benefits aren't that great. Get a REAL job and instruct/DM on the side. All those wonderful PADI pics of the "careers" in professional diving are bogus. It's tough work, low pay and low benefits.
In article <1115671978.886842.49830@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>, "ECUDiver" <kabluton@yahoo.com> wrote:
I am still doing research before I make the plunge.
We can always use another divemaster.
-- "When I have your wounded." -Major Charles L. Kelly, callsign "Dustoff", refusing an order to leave a hot L.Z., July 1, 1964, moments before being killed by a single shot.
"ECUDiver" <kabluton@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1115731367.920081.268730@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...> I can think of a whole lot of things worse than getting> up every day knowing you are going to dive in the beautiful blue waters> of the Caribbean.
You'll be getting up every day to take others diving in the waters of the Caribbean. There is a significant difference.
"ECUDiver" <kabluton@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1115731367.920081.268730@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...> I guess I should clarify some things. I have been diving for 3 years> now and am currently taking my PADI Rescue Diver. I know that I will> never get rich doing this but if I make enough to survive, that is> reward enough. I can think of a whole lot of things worse than getting> up every day knowing you are going to dive in the beautiful blue waters> of the Caribbean. I absolutely hate going to work in an office everyday> and believe that life is too short to do something for a living that> you don't enjoy. I have cash reserves that should allow me to live> pretty comfortably as long as I can make enough for room and board.>
I suppose if you don't mind living in a hovel with 3 or more other starving DM's, you'll be fine.
For example, the ex-pat DM's on Roatan that I have met, are almost all living in group situations and almost all have a second job working as waiters, bartenders, etc.
If you have cash reserves, why not just take an extended vacation (sabbatical) somewhere and go dive every day for pleasure. After a while, you may find that you are ready to get back to home and office. If you find that the lifestyle actually suits you, you can look to getting your DM training there.
In article <v%6ge.1302563$Xk.354307@pd7tw3no>, slarson@shaw.canada says...> I suppose if you don't mind living in a hovel with 3 or more other starving> DM's, you'll be fine.
you'll also clean marine heads, clean bilges, scrape barnacles and paint, put new paint on, load/unload/fill endless tanks, deal with people who can't clear their ears, etc.
"Al Wells" <al.wells@gmail.com> wrote in message news:MPG.1ceae21fcd876e5a989765@news.verizon.net...> In article <v%6ge.1302563$Xk.354307@pd7tw3no>, slarson@shaw.canada> says...> > I suppose if you don't mind living in a hovel with 3 or more other starving> > DM's, you'll be fine.>
you'll also clean marine heads, clean bilges, scrape barnacles and> paint, put new paint on, load/unload/fill endless tanks, deal with> people who can't clear their ears, etc.
"chilly" <slarson@shaw.canada> wrote in message news:O89ge.1302957$Xk.598996@pd7tw3no...>
"Al Wells" <al.wells@gmail.com> wrote in message> news:MPG.1ceae21fcd876e5a989765@news.verizon.net...>> In article <v%6ge.1302563$Xk.354307@pd7tw3no>, slarson@shaw.canada>> says...>> > I suppose if you don't mind living in a hovel with 3 or more other> starving>> > DM's, you'll be fine.>>
you'll also clean marine heads, clean bilges, scrape barnacles and>> paint, put new paint on, load/unload/fill endless tanks, deal with>> people who can't clear their ears, etc.>
If you are young, have a lot of patience with the steady stream of stupid people and other morons that many times dive and post here, and you love to SCUBA got for it.
On 10 May 2005 06:22:47 -0700, "ECUDiver" <kabluton@yahoo.com> wrote:
I guess I should clarify some things. I have been diving for 3 years>now and am currently taking my PADI Rescue Diver. I know that I will>never get rich doing this but if I make enough to survive, that is>reward enough. I can think of a whole lot of things worse than getting>up every day knowing you are going to dive in the beautiful blue waters>of the Caribbean. I absolutely hate going to work in an office everyday>and believe that life is too short to do something for a living that>you don't enjoy. I have cash reserves that should allow me to live>pretty comfortably as long as I can make enough for room and board.
In article <v%6ge.1302563$Xk.354307@pd7tw3no>, slarson@shaw.canada >says...>> I suppose if you don't mind living in a hovel with 3 or more other starving>> DM's, you'll be fine.>
you'll also clean marine heads, clean bilges, scrape barnacles and >paint, put new paint on, load/unload/fill endless tanks, deal with >people who can't clear their ears, etc.
You forgot getting up a 4 am to check the boat and make sure all the tanks are loaded. So you can be at the dock by 6:30.
Been there, done that. Six days a week of diving always sounds romantic until you've done it.
No Jammer, I didn't make the coffee, but I did pickup the donuts.
In article <1115731367.920081.268730@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>, "ECUDiver" <kabluton@yahoo.com> wrote:
I know that I will> never get rich doing this but if I make enough to survive, that is > reward enough.
Well, there's always tips...
-- "When I have your wounded." -Major Charles L. Kelly, callsign "Dustoff", refusing an order to leave a hot L.Z., July 1, 1964, moments before being killed by a single shot.
In article <6ss2819s97uuf0ms8vpk714k9vuainmmlo@4ax.com>, Dillon Pyron <dmpyronINVALID@austin.rr.com> wrote:
No Jammer, I didn't make the coffee, but I did pickup the donuts.
Just like a dm.
Wants the tips without the work. Or the spelling.
Coffee, boy. Black, hot, and now.
-- "When I have your wounded." -Major Charles L. Kelly, callsign "Dustoff", refusing an order to leave a hot L.Z., July 1, 1964, moments before being killed by a single shot.
In article <6ss2819s97uuf0ms8vpk714k9vuainmmlo@4ax.com>,> Dillon Pyron <dmpyronINVALID@austin.rr.com> wrote:>
No Jammer, I didn't make the coffee, but I did pickup the donuts.>
Just like a dm.>
Wants the tips without the work. Or the spelling.
Donuts, doughnuts, both seem to work. Depends on where you're buying them from. Besides, all I have to spell is PADI, Vincency & Buckley and seven hundred dollars.
I really love diving and want to turn it into a career.
I knew this guy Jeff in Boynton Beach, working in a dive shop at a marina.
He said "I should never have turned a fun hobby into a job". Got sick of it doing it day in and day out, and scrabbling to make enough not to starve in a cutthroat industry.
-- Vincent Fox Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 Internet: vf5@mail.gatech.edu
