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Hugo Ortega, American, had a well -paid job as an engineer and a long -term girlfriend.
But he was not happy, he said.
“I didn’t like the work I had. I didn’t like the degree I just finished,” he said. “I started to feel some weighing many things I had in my life.”
So he said he left all this – his work, relations, even his country – a backpack around the world.
For eight months, on her journey, Ortega stated that a random meeting with the South African Yacht deck in Myanmar’s dormitory changed his life.
“I looked, you know, working at a bar or … a backpack yet, or teaching English in China,” he said. “None of this was as sexy as his work.”
They went together for three months, he said.
“I met more and more my friends who were also Yachti,” he said. “Although I didn’t have boats experience, (I knew), I could do it.”
Ortega on board St. David’s yacht during the reality shooting -“below the deck”.
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Currently, the orthog has worked in the yacht -industry for more than ten years, first as a deck, and today as a captain of the Superyacht, he said. The work also led to the reality of the “Bravo Reality” seriesBelow the deck“What offers to look into life on board luxury yachts.
Widespread incorrect ideas
People who are interested in working on the yacht should not be expert sailors and have a boating experience, Ortega said.
“The main thing is really ready to study,” he said, as well as “customer service or type of hospitality”.
According to him, almost every worker on the yacht works with guests, so be friendly and pleasant – critical features. “Some people just don’t have it,” he said.
Ortega started engaged in the yachting industry, earning $ 36,000 a year, as well as tips as a deck, he said. As a captain, he earns $ 10,000 a month as well as tips.
Source: Hugo Ortega
Ortega said that open and modest are also key.
“If you are not the one who is ready to study, or the beginning from the bottom, or you feel again, it will be difficult,” he said.
He also warned that, contrary to the widespread belief, the jobs departing from the classics “9 to 5” is not easy.
“There are many crews, but there is no good crew,” he said.
He also said that while physical speeches are important in the field, everything is changing. According to him, young, beautiful people find a job faster, but over time, crews become more diverse.
“Sometimes people get this idea to look at magazines and brochures that, oh, all this mold,” he said. “It continues to change.”
Ortega has started another difficulty of working: staying in the family, especially on vacation, birthdays and special cases.
“I have a family in the States, I have a best friend in Singapore, I have a brother who lives in Australia, and I have a lot of extended family in the Caribbean,” he said.
Ortega said he often breaks between the waste of leisure with loved ones and places he likes.
“My heart lies in Asia and Europe,” he said.
Login to the industry
Ortega is now focused on teaching the next party yacht through it
“Superyacht Sunday School,“The course program and the coaching program he works with his girlfriend.
“It’s basically as a brain landfill everything I would like to know when I started,” he said.
Now Ortega helps others who want to enter the yachting, sharing “everything I would like to know when it started.”
Source: Hugo Ortega
Since the launch of the program in 2022, Ortega stated that more than 90% of his students found work in the yacht industry. However, only 60% are still working because some people changed their mind about the life of the yacht, he said.
Monthly salary for The entry -level crew ranges from $ 3,000 to $ 4,500, depending on the size and placement of the yacht, Ortega said. However, for chefs and experienced crews, the starting salary may be higher.
This amount does not include advice, he said. In the summer, people can earn double or even triple, their regular payment, he said.
As an engineer, Ortega earned more than $ 100,000 annually, twice the amount he entered the first year in the sea when he worked as a deck. But, he said, his expenses were much lower on the boat.
“I didn’t pay for the car, I didn’t pay for the house, I already went to work,” he said. “I greatly saved everything I did.”
It can also be tax benefits for the sea, he said.
“It seems you earn much more money than the figures show. And the numbers are already good, especially in higher positions,” he said.
Currently, Orttega earns $ 10,000 a month without including tips that can double this amount, he said. He said that captains of 90-meter yachts could be up to $ 30,000 a month.
But the orthog warns from entry into the yacht -the protrusion is strictly for the money.
“If you are on the fence and think about it, just realize that it’s not all the rainbows,” he said.
Some people spend 200 days a year on the water, he said.
But for people who feel detained in their lives who do not like what they do, he said, “Determine it.”
“Life is pretty short,” he said. “I want to see as much as I can.”
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