@dander pay is great, the work is hard, you cant have a girl unless you are ok with her cheating when you are at sea, you need someone to look out for your home or pets while you are gone, they dont really like women in these jobs and women generally dont like these kind of jobs. Always long hours and in really ice cold weather, the sea is you new wife but you wont understand the meaning of that untill you actually become a seaman, they really do talk like sailors.