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Captain George Tsouris, welcome to Sail Ahead.
Thank you for giving us this interview.
We have some questions regarding whether a Captain...
can work ashore.
Thank you for including us into this project.
As Captain, I'm ready to answer any of your questions.
In your opinion, what are the most important skills or competences...
a cadet has acquired upon graduation from their academy.
Apart from the basic knowledge that they need, to start off as cadets...
since they will spend some time at sea before becoming captains...
they need to have the will...
to improve their position.
Hard work, patience, persistence...
temperance, since it's a really tough job...
and you are away from your loved ones...
in the middle of the ocean.
To feel the drive to constantly improve their knowledge...
so that they may be competitive.
Besides working at sea...
what other careers can a captain or cadet have?
Cadets don't have that many choices...
since they've barely started their career.
Captains, however, or even Chief Officers...
have many available options on land.
The option that most of them prefer...
is to work for a shipping company, in the management department...
the crew department, the safety and quality department...
or the marine department.
They can work for shipping agencies...
or depending on their experience and the requirements...
they can become professors or lecturers in maritime schools...
and merchant marine academies for ship captains.
They can also teach in private colleges.
Several colleagues, as we've seen in the past...
depending on the demand...
have joined the coastguard...
or other port authority agencies in various harbours.
If the cadet or captain chooses a career not at sea...
apart from the skills they've already acquired...
which are the most transferable to work ashore?
What we must do and usually that's what we try to do...
is to alternate positions.
To properly apply our knowledge from the land to the sea...
in order to deal with any issues regarding the ships.
It is hard work. Most find it hard at first.
It took me some time as well to familiarize myself...
with working in an office for so many hours.
They need to be persistent.
If they are captains, apart from the issue of cooperativeness...
there are also administrative issues.
Being on board a ship differs from being in an office.
They need to transfer their knowledge...
to their colleagues on board the ship.
Thank you very much for answering our questions.
It was my pleasure.