Mapping a maritime career

Career “mapping”, in which a plan is worked out which indicates where a young person wishes to be at every stage of his or her career, is a fashionable concept. Certainly it is a good deal more structured than matters were in previous generations, when a career tended to develop in an almost random fashion, as luck, opportunity, circumstance and ambition intervened.

It is reckoned to be a good idea, particularly when somebody is contemplating a sea career, but with the seafaring confined to a finite period and as a preliminary to a shore side further career within the maritime industry. For sure, some people will stay at sea for the whole of their working lives, but they will be in a minority, and it is perhaps unfair and certainly unrealistic to lure young people into the sea side of the business against this concept of a whole working life spent at sea.

So it is a good idea to consider the options, and also some rough approximation about when career changes will be made, as early as possible in one's career.

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