Hello friends, I am really excited to bring you this guest post today from my friend Iris. We did a few contracts together out at sea years ago, when I was a cruise ship stage manager. While I’ve definitely got my land legs back, she married a sailor and is still part of ship life…
I recently had dinner with a cousin I hadn’t seen in years and as we were catching up on our lives, she asked me what I’d learned from working on cruise ships. I was a little taken aback, especially since my cruise ship days ended more than five years ago, but as a I reflected…
So you just landed a job on a cruise ship and now you need to know what to bring with you, right? If this is your first time away from home for months at a time, trying to figure out how to pack is incredibly daunting. For my first contract, they told me they would…
So, like I haven’t rambled about my weird adventures enough in the last two weeks… if you wanted to know more about what it was like to live on a cruise ship, check out my guest post over at Budgets Are Sexy. Some people do crazy things like recycle their toilet paper to save a…
Throughout my twenties, I had one really bad money “habit” – school. Education was held up to some crazy standard in my house as long as I could remember. If I didn’t get straight A’s, I would be grounded for the following marking period. There was no discussion of if I would go to college…