What is a sailor's job?

The work of seafarers is not bad, but the psychological load of seafarers is extremely heavy. Seafarers should not only have strong physique and skilled professional skills, but also have good psychological quality, strong adaptability to the environment and contingency ability to deal with emergencies. Seafarers' occupation requires quite high professional quality of employees.

Seafarers are a special profession, and they are protected by international conventions. Its occupational characteristics are similar to those of other occupations, but there are also many differences.

Driving and managing ships requires professional knowledge, which determines the technicality of seafarers' occupation; In the process of driving and managing a ship, each sailor plays a different role, which determines the professional independence of seafarers. Sailing and managing a ship is a systematic work, which requires the joint efforts of seafarers, which determines the professional teamwork of seafarers.

Sailors are far away from the land, take the ship as their home, steer in a relatively closed environment and sail at sea for a long time in various sea conditions, which determines the hardships and risks of seafarers' careers.

The most important factor affecting seafarers' physical and mental health

1. The feeling of indifference, negativity and boredom caused by long voyage is very harmful.

2. interpersonal difficulties. Strict hierarchy and fixed roles, especially language barriers and cultural differences among seafarers with multiple nationalities.

3. Unsafe environment and various harmful factors.

As a lifelong sailor, I feel powerless to change my situation and adapt to difficulties.