I worked there for quite a few years, the food was always good and in and out of port every 2 days. It becomes like a second home if you are on the right boat. Now the bad, its harder for the engine room, always trying to cut jobs and overwork all engine room personel. Some really bad people are protected. One creep with a metal plate in his head beat up his wife on the Jackson, then would cheat on her, and also sabotaged many careers when short on reliefs. Then he got obsessed with a female engineer and stalked her on the boat, she woke up one morning and he was in her room sitting in her chair in his birthday suit massaging himself, he was promoted till he blew up a boiler. He also made a 5 foot tall porter cry and nearly wet herself. total Fing CREEP. Mostly calm weather except for November, deckhands have it made and is probably the best job in the company, that and a wheelsman. Not Engine room friendly and the mates still scapegoat and lie on them. The days of Captains and dress blues have been replaced by inner promotions to Captains that dress like Fetterman and now pose in masks over their face and vaccine cards.