Former cruise ship musician reveals darkish aspect of the job most individuals do not find out about

A former cruise ship musician has revealed the ‘darkish aspect’ of the job.

In his early 20s, Jeff Schneider was a school child who spent his summer season taking part in music, getting paid and spending his days hanging out on the seaside whereas travelling.

However whereas all of it sounds fairly sick, the YouTuber says it wasn’t ‘all sunshine and rainbows’ as most individuals don’t fairly know in regards to the realities of working onboard.

Jeff bagged himself the gig as a pianist on the cruise ship, having been suggested by a pal that taking part in the piano would earn him greater than his essential instrument, the saxophone.

For him, one of many greatest challenges of the job was that it started to really feel like ‘Groundhog Day’, however he nonetheless did it for 3 years.

But it surely appears there was a whole lot of enjoyable too as he tells his subscribers about ‘getting sauced’ but additionally some ‘least PG tales.’

Jeff admits he wasn’t all the time ‘so productive’ as loads of his fellow cruise ship staff would ‘simply move the time by ingesting.’

One man he shared a room with would even come dwelling at three o’clock within the morning and ‘simply begin ingesting straight from the bottle.’

“Fortunately, issues didn’t get as darkish for me,” he says, “however I can’t say I all the time made the neatest selections.”

One other ‘extra enjoyable, much less scary’ roommate was requested to finish a random drug take a look at at one level however ‘there was no approach he was going to move.’

And so, Jeff took one for the crew.

“He requested me to pee in a condom which he may then cover in his pants and use to faux urinate right into a cup whereas in a rest room stall,” he explains. “You continue to owe me.”

Now, I’m not attempting to play into any sexist stereotypes right here, however wow, boys are gross. I imply, severely?

That’s darkish.

What was correctly darkish for Jeff although is how he felt like he began ‘to lose my thoughts’ after a three-four month contract as a result of ‘repetitive nature.’

“Most individuals work at the very least eight months at a time,” he provides. “Truthfully, I wouldn’t be capable of cling for that lengthy – and it’s not simply because I’d go stir loopy.”

The musician says the problem with being at sea is that you just’re ‘not constructing a life on land’, so it appears like ‘beginning over’ once you return.

“It’s an extremely daunting activity,” Jeff says.