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Topic: Seafood JOB in Alaska (Disaster)
Snakebite07 Joined Tue 07/14/09 Posts: 65	Mon 07/05/10 03:09 PM Edited by Snakebite07 on Mon 07/05/10 03:10 PM
I arrived here in Valdez, Alaska last 24th of June. Hoping for a better compensation job. What I got is just 5 hours every other day work. And Rate is 7.25/ hr huhuhu. Help help help....

IndnPrncs Joined Sun 11/04/07 Posts: 58420	Mon 07/05/10 03:12 PM
Did the mislead you when they offered the job?

Tribbles Joined Tue 11/17/09 Posts: 7349	Mon 07/05/10 03:12 PM
I think I would have checked into all of this before I moved anywhere...

Snakebite07 Joined Tue 07/14/09 Posts: 65	Mon 07/05/10 03:14 PM
Been told that they will give more than 12 hrs/day and 7 days/week. When I got here...huhuhu... Only the regular staff gets 12 hrs /day.

Snakebite07 Joined Tue 07/14/09 Posts: 65	Mon 07/05/10 03:16 PM
I think I would have checked into all of this before I moved anywhere... I am not staying here for good, only for this season, until Sept. only for the salmon season.

JOHNN111 Joined Wed 05/13/09 Posts: 9273	Mon 07/05/10 03:24 PM
Go to BC and plant some trees... its backbreaking but good $$$

Snakebite07 Joined Tue 07/14/09 Posts: 65	Mon 07/05/10 03:26 PM
BC? hmmnnn

AndrewRunningWolf Joined Thu 06/17/10 Posts: 3	Mon 07/05/10 03:52 PM
Everyone wants better jobs. when you relocate, in this economy,one should realize that the good jobs go to the locals before anyone else.

mightymoe Joined Sun 11/19/06 Posts: 37362	Mon 07/05/10 04:07 PM
i say be patient, and try to get on the boats... they pick the regulars first, then hire on after that... it's hard to get on up there, i tried for 3 seasons when i lived in seattle, and finally did for 1 season. good luck, and keep trying

writer_gurl Joined Sat 03/01/08 Posts: 7673	Mon 07/05/10 04:11 PM
That royally sucks bad! Not much luck here either...Only minimum wage Just hang in there

soufiehere Joined Sat 10/24/09 Posts: 45399	Mon 07/05/10 05:40 PM
Can't help. You're screwed. It is only a bad ending if you cannot look at it as a wild and funny experiment of your youth.

newarkjw Joined Sun 05/25/08 Posts: 17172	Mon 07/05/10 05:45 PM
I think I would have checked into all of this before I moved anywhere... I am not staying here for good, only for this season, until Sept. only for the salmon season. Salmon the other pink meat................

AndyBgood Joined Thu 12/25/08 Posts: 12437	Mon 07/05/10 05:46 PM
Alaska was your first Mistake! You got to go where there is work in the first place. San Francisco would have been a much better choice! Also the minimum wage in CA is $8.25 an hr. All I can suggest is look into working for the oil companies! They are the only ones there with steady work. There are a host of support jobs they need that are more domestic in nature like catering, as well as other things including needing people to help in their medical facilities. Those jobs pay a lot better!

Aries151 Joined Fri 02/20/09 Posts: 1077	Mon 07/05/10 05:49 PM
Alaska was your first Mistake! You got to go where there is work in the first place. San Francisco would have been a much better choice! Also the minimum wage in CA is $8.25 an hr. All I can suggest is look into working for the oil companies! They are the only ones there with steady work. There are a host of support jobs they need that are more domestic in nature like catering, as well as other things including needing people to help in their medical facilities. Those jobs pay a lot better! Too bad the cost of living will kill you haha

AndyBgood Joined Thu 12/25/08 Posts: 12437	Mon 07/05/10 06:03 PM
Alaska was your first Mistake! You got to go where there is work in the first place. San Francisco would have been a much better choice! Also the minimum wage in CA is $8.25 an hr. All I can suggest is look into working for the oil companies! They are the only ones there with steady work. There are a host of support jobs they need that are more domestic in nature like catering, as well as other things including needing people to help in their medical facilities. Those jobs pay a lot better! Too bad the cost of living will kill you haha No effing Kidding!!!!!!! Thank god this isn't New York either! or worst New Jersey....

Snakebite07 Joined Tue 07/14/09 Posts: 65	Mon 07/05/10 06:59 PM
I arrived here in Valdez, Alaska last 24th of June. Hoping for a better compensation job. What I got is just 5 hours every other day work. And Rate is 7.25/ hr huhuhu. Help help help.... ==========i am willing to transfer in anchorage if someone knew where i can get a straight job===========i applied for supervisory position...damn! i was 3 days late to apply...it was filled huhuhuhu========

Snakebite07 Joined Tue 07/14/09 Posts: 65	Sat 10/16/10 08:35 AM
good news or not? I had a job offer for next year season in Alaska. Quality Control position... What do you think peeps?

AndyBgood Joined Thu 12/25/08 Posts: 12437	Sat 10/16/10 09:39 AM
its OK but the real cherry is continual work. Still in some cases you got to take what you can get!

polson Joined Sun 12/31/06 Posts: 28173	Sat 10/16/10 06:50 PM
Quality control on what? If you are working the fish on the barge. You mainly get hourly and a "bonus" for the season. I don't know about the cannery side.

Gossipmpm Joined Tue 03/03/09 Posts: 19414	Sat 10/16/10 06:52 PM
ooohhhh shizzz woman............ hope you got some freinds...................