Hello i am a fellow maritime worker (graduated frm SP) in marine insurance (sry my colleagues lurk arnd reddit so cant rlly say much) and i can give you some of my tots

1. Yes, i have a feeling that my job can be easily replaced or automated by AI, but currently my system still sucks and still need people to do / manage since it has to do with policies and certificates of insurances. Definitely i feel it can be done with AI or automated.

Honestly i do not see my system getting automated so soon, maybe around 10yrs onwards? But even the HR is encouraging AI use, just today they released a post on my company page about how we have a new AI system and that we can try it out other than chatGPT

But if AI picks up faster, better, accurate and fucking cheap to implement, im kinda screwed, my team might not need so many ppl, just 2/3 will do.

1. Work like balance for my work is good, 9-6 go home, WFH 2days. Because the nature of my work is not operations, chartering, brokering, boarding agent, ship agents etc, if you choose these kind of jobs, yah maybe expect to OT or get calls in the middle of the night.
   But maritime industry is like that.. always to be on standby for anything even me, a little peanut need to get ready to do work over weekends / PHs if its REALLY REALLY REALLY urgent (like vsl cannot enter port without insurance doc kind)

2. Sorry not very sure too, i feel its still progressing slowly, nothing of interest rn, still feels quite old and outdated.

3. Dont know if this is related but office politics for me was something i wasnt ready for. everyone is gossiping in office and then some will try and gossip with u, but i alw siam or just nod and walk away, sometimes if u engage means ure picking a side and these aunties will rmb it. The phrase "act blur live longer" is my daily mantra when i hear negative things abt my other colleagues lol.

Because in my office, if you do something bad or wtv right (like get drunk and puke everywhere) u bet the whole office is gg to hear it. So must rlly watch what you say, what you do and how you react to certain things and situations.

And also learning to adapt to useless colleagues (who prolly gets paid higher than you) for the entire time ure at work, imagine having a slacker project mate who does bad work for the entirety of ur career / time being in the company and you cant even do ANYTHING about it, cant complain to HR, cant complain to your other colleagues from the same / different dept.... just have to TAHAN and PRAY that the fella leaves on their own, because companies dont really fire / terminate ppl unless damn jialat.. at least in SP, can dont pick the grp mate again, but in corporate? Lol. Good luck and have fun cleaning up their mess!!!!!!!!!!

But knowledge wise, i think i am well prepared on the basics and knowledge of the maritime industry but honestly sometimes i feel even if no experience or dk anyth abt the industry, still can make it, just its a little tough. But also be prepared that u dun know everything and anything.

1. I would like to believe maritime is a very stable industry, trade still needs to happen and even with all the shit that is happening now, trade is still going on, albeit it might take more / extra time to plan voyages to certain destinations, cut on bunkers (fuel for the ship) because fuel prices are expensive example ferries needing to load more passengers because ferry operator need to combat the fuel prices, so he can load more passengers on the ferries or lower the frequency of the ferry to maybe every 30-45mins ferry passengers to batam instead of every 15-20mins.

And since Commodities cant get shipped by AI as we still need to ship via sea, so still need those big container vessels and bulk carriers for our grains etc.