Where one thing ends another begins

I have completed everything on my long list of hire paperwork and am currently on Active Hold. Everyone tells me that it is best to just live your life as I was and not worry or sit around and wait for a sail-out date, this however seems almost IMPOSSIBLE while I am very excited to get on the ship and start the adventure of a lifetime, at the same times I don't want what I currently have to end. It is late and I will expand more on this tomorrow. Hope everyone is doing good and having a great week. This weekend I turn the big 19 so close to not being a teen anymore!!!

...ITS ARRIVED

With these two item and once I have my TWIC card I can go anywhere in the world!!

Well today everything became real, I received my MMC in the mail and will be picking up my TWIC on Wednesday, I will send a copy of my MMC to my recruiter. I should know by the end of next week if I am on the rotation list or may possibly even know a sail out date if my position on the ship is open.

UPDATE

Hello blog readers,


   Sorry it has been such a long time since I have updated it has been a very busy week as I was working extended schedules at work since we are on spring break schedule. Not much has happened as far as progress....... okay i say not much but truthfully a lot has happened.... On 3/9/2012 my MMC application was submitted on my behalf by NCL. This process usually is a 8-10 week process from the time it is submitted to USCG, goes through review of my Medical,Criminal,Personal and everything from the time that I was born to current day. As of 12:38 p.m. on March 16th,2012 my MMC credentials are currently in USPS First Class somewhere in the U.S. on its way to my house. I will be traveling down to Corpus Christi on Wednesday the 21st in order to pick up my TWIC card and my MMC should be in my mailbox any day now. As soon as this arrives I will take a copy of it and fax it to my recruiter who will in return give me either my sail date or put me on the wait list. At this point in time everything is becoming more and more real and the fact that soon I will be making Hawaii my home for 5 months at a time and in between contracts will be touring the world. I know at this point in time my blog seems very repetitive so please bare with me as the closer to sail out and once on board the blog should be full of great stories. I will also be sharing my stories of my travels during my breaks so once this all get rolling it should be great. At this point in time I am looking for questions from my readers,, it can be about anything... Wanting more info about one of my entries, wanting to know more on how I got to this point, questions about the cruise industry from a cruisers view, what I am expecting, what I know about my job at this point. If I don't know the answers I will try and find them for you.

Not A Criminal

As of 3/3 my TWIC card was approved and has been sent to the production plant to be made and hen will be sent back to Corpus Christi where I will go back and pick it up. You will probably see that I have not been posting daily or nearly as frequent as I was at first but that is for a few reasons, I have been trying to spend extra time with friends and family since I will be away for months at a time, this is a stage in the hiring process where there are long wait periods before I move onto the next steps however on the same note we are also at a point where besides the wait period there is not much left to do. Once my TWIC arrives, Medical Clears, and my MMC arrives then one of tow things will happen, I will receive a sail out date if there is any open spots for my position or I will be placed on active hold and the long wait will begin until I sail out. This has been one of the best experiences in my life and something I have dreamed of for years. It has really made me "grow up" and take responsibility in all my daily work.

TWIC

Hello Readers,

This post won't be too long as I have to get up in 7 hours and make a 3.5 hour drive home and be at work by 2 so tomorrow will make for a long day and cranky Tyler but I would trade anything for what I have going in my life. Yesterday around midday I drove to San Antonio and spent the night with my mother, we then woke up and drove down to Corpus Christi today to complete my application and registration for my TWIC card. This is a card required in order to have un escorted assess to secure areas. Now let me remind you the trip from San Antonio to Corpus took around 2 + hours, my TWIC appointment... a whopping 10mins.... so this trip seemed pointless, but let me make it even clearer,,, I must travel down there again to pick up and activate my card which will take another 10 min appointment.... but the journeys make it 100% worth it. Well not much else happened this past week or so or since my last post. Well guess it is time for me to get off this computer,pintrest, and Facebook and hit the sack before my long drive tomorrow. Hope everyone has a great day!!!!

Status Update

I am just checking in and letting everyone know where I sit on my journey to boarding the ship.

At this point in time I have completed the following:

Job fair and Interview

New Hire Paper Work 

Medical Exam 

I have remaining:

TWIC Application (Overnight Road Trip :) )

MMC Application (NCLA takes care of this for you)

Receive Clearance from Medical Exam, Receive TWIC and MMC cards
Receive Sail Out Date and/or be placed the active hold list.

This is the Pride of America , the ship I will be employed on. 

This journey has deficiently been a life lesson on how quick things in life can change, it made me realize that we have to be thankful and enjoy what we have when its around because as in this situation life can change in only a matter of a few days. I am really looking forward to getting to the ship and completing my training and get to working. While told it is hard to transfer departments once on board, I am hoping that I can prove my dedication and get transferred to shore excursion, front desk, or cruise staff position soon. I am thankful to have such a supportive group of family and friends who have really helped and encouraged me on this long and difficult but eventually wonderful journey in life. This job will open up the chance for my to see the world and travel and that is amazing. 

....BLACKOUT....

This title of this blog is actually a rather embarrassing story but I will share. Well for those of you who read my last blog I had my medical exam this morning at 10:30am. Like a very unsmart person who you would have thought would know nothing about the medical field, decided to go to my medical exam without eating knowing that they would be drawing blood. Well everything went great until we got to the blood work portion. I was fine for the first two and a half tubes but the last one really got me!!!! Needless to say I ended up blacking out and was out of it for a few seconds, one of the most embarrassing and first time experiences in my life that I don't want to experience again. The rest of the exam was a breeze except for the length of it, from the time I arrived to the time that I walked out of the office was right over two hours. This was definitely probably the worst parts. !! Now the wait begins to get my blood work and all of my other test results back. I will be going down to Corpus Christi this next week in order to apply for my TWIC card which those of you applying or currently employed know what it is, for those of you who don't , this is the card you need to get into secure area, 6-8 Weeks after that I have to travel back down and pick it up :/ lots of traveling for two 15min appointments. Well that is all for this post, time to go get a movie and go to bed I slept very little last night and my fainting session did not help at all. Hope everyone is doing well. Another blog to come tomorrow.