Your First Week on a Cruise Ship Will Test You (Here’s Why)
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I promise you that everyone who has worked on a cruise ship has had these thoughts. You have uprooted your entire life and dropped yourself in a new one.
If you can make it through the first month, you can make it through your contract.
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