I once landed a job working at the north rim of the Grand Canyon. It was right after college, before I’d become a full-time musician, and I was looking for a destination job with some adventure. I got the position through this website, which is…
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A real piano is the right answer here. But now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, let’s talk about what you’ll actually buy.
Sometimes it seems like a real piano is more a piece of furniture than a…
As a musician, you are part of the entertainment department on cruise ships. Your boss is the music director, their boss is the cruise director, their boss is the hotel manager, and their boss is the captain – who is everybody’s boss.
Cruiselinejobs.com… has a
I wanted to respond to a comment I received a few months ago on the Adjusting to Land After a Cruise Job… post. My apologies to Michael for taking so long to get back to him. This is the comment:
Dave,
Thanks so much for
This might be a short list.
Just kidding. Its been so long since I was out on a ship that I forget exactly what it was that turned me off from it. I remember I felt isolated, as if, for instance, I was out in…
I said I’d never do it.
But its much different this time, so I took a new job on a cruise ship. I’ll be cruising the Hawaiian islands as a guest performer from April to at least July, and perhaps longer.
I have guest status,…
This blog is a fair and honest representation of the cruise jobs I had in 2004 and 2008. Some have asked whether or not the writing was filtered to stay out of trouble with management, and yes, of course it was. It was filtered in…
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