When a person perceives that she/he is unable to meet the demands and pressures that are placed upon them, stress arises.
Do I have stress at work?
Well, except for the fact that I have to guard a certain siao ren and damn disgust about having to work during the weekend and public holiday. Other than that, I think I have no stress at work.
Let's analysis....a typical day at work attending ship during daytime.
Normally, my day begins depend very much on what time is my vessel arrival and so today I'm at the Mariner South Pier at 8:15am as my vessel coming at 8:00am.
Then, I'll meet up whoever need to go up the vessel with me. Of course we liaise the day before and in this case a surveyor is coming with me. Book my small boat (launch) and off we go at 8:30am.
(There's my ship and those barges beside her are supply boat like supplying bunker)
(All the crews are of Russian nationality)
This is my first time onboard this ship, in fact 90 percent of the time is similar situation to this.
See the crews,...most of the time I ignore them. Anything I want or need I look for the Captain / Master. If Captain give me a hard time, then I have a hard time. By the way, hard time mean I have to stay longer time onboard only. It doesn't mean I'm scare of him.
Average time need to settle my work take about 45min.
(Can see our Singapore building at the far end?)
My ship can anchor in few area depending on vessel size. Lucky today it take just 15 min from pier to ship. If anchor at Changi, it take 1 hour to reach.
Time: 9:20am
Look for Captain, settle the formality; port paper, accessing departure time & etc......
(Captain is photocopies some paper for me)
Unfortunately, this Russian Captain do not speak much English so it took me an hour to finish everything.
Left vessel at 9:45am
Reach back pier 10:00am.
And what do I now?
I go back home and sleep.
So do I have stress my work?
