Job offer for next year.

Alrighty, Things are getting better daily here not that it was bad before, but its just getting easier daily. The people I’ve met are turning into true friendships, both with the Greek crew I work with and the other foreign workers I have met out and about. I can’t wait to see how good of friends I’ll have by the end of the summer here and how hooked up I’ll be for a Europe trip in the future! Haha.

 

So yesterday I found out some interesting information, the guy who I thought was the first mate Manoly who is also my favorite member of the crew… is actually the owner of the boat as well as the owner of the boat that we partner with. He really has taken a liking to me as well which is quite nice for job security here haha. Yesterday he told me he thought of all of the people selling tickets on the port he thought I was doing the best job, and Greeks aren’t really the type of people to just throw out compliments so I knew he meant it which was really cool. Then he asked me how long I’d be here on the island for and when I told him through the end of August he got excited then said he wanted me to come back and work next year! AND OFFERED TO PAY FOR MY TRIP HERE NEXT SUMMER IF I COME BACK TO WORK AND PAY ME MORE!  Needless to say that has sparked my interest greatly in returning for next summer!

 

But here is some stuff I need to figure out before I commit to anything, I know I need to get an internship eventually if I want to really land a decent job after college, but I could perhaps do that in Columbus while I go to school, or really since I’m not in any huge rush to finish school, I could take a quarter off to go for an internship else where during the school year then work back here next summer. My other dillema is that there is so much of the world I want to see and there are so many summer jobs available that I could go to a different country and work there and experience a new culture different from this one. I guess it would all kind of depend on money, like if I could come here and actually make money that I could save for later instead of just enough to survive, especially getting paid in Euros (I know that next summer is a long way away and the currencies could be completely different, but I’ll cross that bridge when it comes.) I mean I get paid 30 euros a day now and that’s not commissioned or anything, what I’d probably work on doing is switching to a commission based salary where I get a base pay of like 20 euros a day then 2 euros per person I book for the trips. Then say I can book an average of like 12 people a day that would be 44 euros a day I’d be able to get a cheaper apartment than the one I’m living in now hopefully a roommate as well so it would be less than 200 euros a month for an apartment then being quite generous say I spend an average of 20 euros a day on food and drink. I’ve still got almost 20 Euros a day to save. So if I could save 20 euros a day for lets say 70 days of work for the summer I’d save 1400 euros which would be right around 2000 US dollars if the exchange rate is around the same as it is now.

 

But even so, if I decide to do this again, I don’t think I’d do it alone again, as easy as it is to make friends and meet people and everything here, it would just be better to have like a solid buddy with me for this trip. So I guess that means I’m taking applications for next summer! Haha!