Floating University Offers Recession-Proof Jobs
June 27, 2012
Many new college graduates are having a hard time finding work because of the weak economy. But that's not a problem for students from The California Maritime Academy, the only school of its kind on the U.S. west coast. One of the cities the school's floating classroom visited during a two-month international training cruise.
Deep in the heart of the ship named Golden Bear, it is hot and the sound of engines, loud. This is where Vasile Tudoran spends much of his time, doing what he loves.
"I knew I wanted to fix stuff since I was a little kid," said Tudoran.
Tudoran is a mechanical engineering student at The California Maritime Academy. Even though students attend classes on the university campus in northern California, they are required to get hands-on experience on the Golden Bear training vessel. During this two-month trip, 288 cadets travel more than 15,000 kilometers south to the Panama Canal, visiting countries in Central America and the Caribbean along the way.
"When we get out of school you are basically guaranteed a job," noted Tudoran. "There are not enough bodies for the positions that are needed to be filled."
Robert Jackson, one of Tudoran's teachers echoes that.
"I would say the majority of our students have between one to two job offers before they graduate," said Jackson. "Most of those job offers are between $60,000 and $120,000 [a year]. Our students have such a broad knowledge they can go anywhere."
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