Whats it like being a Naval Architect?
My SO is a marine engineer. We currently live in Korea, where he’s working on a FPSO (a floating, storage, production and offloading vessel). He’s not a marine architect but he works with them every day. If you like to travel, you will have plenty of opportunity to do it. You will also have the chance to meet people from all over the world. If you like to work outside (as in, not in an office) you can do that too. My husband refers to a good day at work as one when he gets to go out on the ship and examines the work of the contractors. Now that construction on his project is actually underway, these days happen a lot more often. SO went to a maritime academy in the US and now works for a major oil company. He’s worked there for nearly 8 years (he’s 33 now). He’s been told that, at his age, he’s an asset, since most of the people in this business are either about to retire or straight out of college. Husband basically has his pick of where he wants to go and what projects he wants to wo
