Friday, August 02, 2013

Patience. You'll get your call.

We all wanted to work upon the water. Some would go to fishing boats, some to ships. Those that wanted to go to the tugs had a more difficult time breaking in.

There is an idea that a green hand will be a burden to the tug crew. Fish boats and ships have positions for starters but boatmen talk as if the work is too special on the decks of a tug. That one can rarely learn it as well as they have. A man needs experience before he can be hired but he'll gain no experience before he is hired. It's the Grecian Urn cycle, broken only by the desperation of a small outfit in immediate need of hands.

Then we went down to meet the men and women at the outfits.

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