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Maybe if they made some better sea shantys, more people would join

Sounds like trucking. I’m 28 years in and finally working for an LTL company, something I should have done a long time ago, but it’s still trucking.

Does that mean they talk less about their homes?

Nobody wants to work anymore especially the young folks. Why would maritime industries be any different?

The reason is that their parents coddle them. Let them stay in the house rent free. etc

I heard it called Floating Jail many times

When delivering pizza full time is similar pay to this terrible job why would anyone take the terrible job?

I think over the last decade or two industries have been pretending inflation doesn't exist because they don't want to raise the price of goods and services.  Meanwhile every employee gets more and more poor.  Unskilled relatively easy full time jobs are starting at 18-20 per hour. Companies looking for skilled workers and hard labor are paying 20-25  and somehow believing that's a good wage and scratching their heads when no ody wants to do their hard shitty job with terrible work life balance just to get an extra 3-5 bucks an hour.    

If it paid 50k ten years ago it needs to pay at least 75k now if you want to get the same value of labor.

You are missing the point on how terrible jobs work now.

For example, when I was a hotellier, I started at the bottom, Night Audit, within 2 years, I was Managing a Hotel downtown NOLA in the quarters.

If I didn't take the COVID retirement package, I would have been an AGM in a year and a GM in another year making an easy $125,000 plus bonus and being a GM if you aren't a moron of a thief is a gravy job.

But, you have to start at the shit job, no one if hiring you to be a GM just because you have a degree or worked at McDonalds