Newly minted PADI DM needs job! What should I do?

[eth727]

Okay I should probably put this in the classified section but wasn't sure. I just became a DM. I want a job. I heard that LDS's will only hire a DM if they are OWSI. I also don't have EFR instructor. How can I get a job?

 

[dbulmer]

I'm just an AOW diver but what do think you could offer a future employer?
(there's no need for you to reply but think about it.)

 

[eth727]

I'm safe,professional and helpful diver with 70+ dives. I have excellent communication skills,know CPR & 1st aid. I have a VW bus so I've a vehicle with cargo capacity.

 

[Superlyte27]

you and 6000 other people. Except for the VW bus part, that sets you apart.

 

[TMHeimer]

Seems the consensus on SB is your best bet is with the LDS that certified you. Where I live it's the only choice.

 

[toddthecat]

Go through to IDC Staff Instructor. That should help.

 

[Jim Lapenta]

Get a CPR/FA/AED/O2 instructor cert. does not matter with who. If you don;t plan on going to instructor take a diesel mechanics course, get your 100 ton masters license, learn how to service compressors, and fix regulators. Maybe as a DM you'll get a job outside of helping instructors for maybe tips, air fills, and a sandwich (bologna & cheese most likely). If your LDs led you to believe that getting a DM cert would open up new worlds to you they may have stretched the truth. And you paid them to do it.

Why did you become a DM? I hope it was not because they told you that you'd be a great one as you handed them a check. If they thought you would be that great you'd have bought your books and they would have subsidized your tuition or charged a token amount. "You'd be a great DM!" is a well used and well planned line that PT Barnum is smiling at all the time.

 

[Superlyte27]

Jim, i have everything you just listed, got a job for me? I'll be right up.
scratch that, i can't work on compressors.

 

[Peter_C]

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Sorry had to do it! Good luck with your job search.

 

[flots am]

Okay I should probably put this in the classified section but wasn't sure. I just became a DM. I want a job. I heard that LDS's will only hire a DM if they are OWSI. I also don't have EFR instructor. How can I get a job?

Learn how to fix diesel engines and get a job as a mechanic. Then dive when and where you want.

You're competing for a DM job with pretty much everybody who likes to dive. Many of them don't need to make any money doing it, which tends to keep the pay down somewhere around "$0".

flots.