I took this at With Full Force 16 on my cell phone, you weren't allowed to bring video cameras in, but they didn't do anything about cameras that could film.
Hey, my name is Ryan. I know this is completely random and you don't know me or anything. But after doing a quick search on Livejournal, I found an entry on a Vegetarian community (I'm vegetarian too) where you talked about working in the fish industry in Alaska. I was planning on doing this for the summer of 2011 and was just looking for someone to talk with about that. There's a bunch of resources online, but I suppose I just wanted to hear about someone's experience regarding it.
I'd be happy to answer any questions you have about it. I worked for the company EC Phillips & Son in Ketchikan. It paid very well and you get a lot of overtime. I worked on what we called the "Blood Line" where we gut the fish. At first the smell is kind of overwhelming but after a few minutes you don't smell it anymore. It might depend on where you work, but we weren't allowed to talk while working on the Blood Line either but they always had music playing. A few times I worked in the Egg House which is where they process the salmon eggs to be sent off to France and Japan and in there you could talk and it was a much more relaxed atmosphere than the fast paced blood line. At the time when I worked there which was 11 years ago, they brought in a lot of workers from Mexico but now I hear they bring in a lot of people from eastern Europe because the Mexicans started to ask for too much money. Let me know if there's anything else I can tell you about, do you know where you'll be working in Alaska? Ketchikan is one of the main
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Nope, I have no idea yet. It's still something I'm just looking into. I would be doing it in the summer of 2010. Next summer, I'll be biking across the country and then come back in August, some leisure time until the early spring. Then a friend and I were thinking of going to Seattle for a few days and spending the summer up in Alaska. I read that most companies pay round-trip air-fare to and from Seattle. If you don't mind me asking, how much were you making. I'm sure prices are different now, though. But I've read that I could get up to 1,000 per week (so 12,000 total assuming the season is 3 months) and I've also read that the entire summer could pull in 50,000 depending on the job. Obviously the blood line and harvesting for Crabs is different degrees of physical work. Also, how much free time did you get while you were up there? Or was it work constantly? Did your company pay for room and board as well?
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