Life Lessons Learned: Most Dangerous Place to Work
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I have been dry docked several times with the USS Archer Fish, two that I can recall in addition to the Carnival Triumph and the Celebration.
It's not pretty. In fact, it's downright miserable.
You're getting shore power, which means that you're not getting air conditioning and you're not getting a high functioning kitchen, let alone a fully functioning galley.
What was really frustrating about this particular shipwide upgrade was there wasn't a whole lot of planning that I was aware of regarding what the sequence was for upgrading switches and a couple of routers in addition to servers and storage.
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One of the most dangerous places to work in the world isn’t a battlefield or a refinery—it’s a ship in dry dock, where everything you take for granted on board is shut down and torn apart. In this Life Lessons Learned episode, I share: What a month‑long dry dock on the Celebration was really like: no AC, limited galley, constant refurbishment work, and a full ship‑wide systems upgrade happening at the same time. How the lack of a clear, sequenced plan for switches, routers, servers, and storage turned already‑miserable conditions into avoidable frustration and risk. The leadership lesson, echoing Eisenhower: “plans” themselves may not survive contact with reality, but ongoing planning—daily for yourself, and on a weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly rhythm for your team—is essential, and it must be explicit and transparent. If your world feels like a perpetual dry dock—high stakes, moving parts everywhere, constant change—this story is a push to stop winging it and build a living planning cadence that everyone can see and contribute to.