In r/MarineEngineering, prospective engineers weigh doing 30 months as a wiper before returning to school, with advice that sea time accelerates later theory comprehension if you actively seek learning, manuals, and responsibility beyond rating.
I plan to go to sea and accumulate 30 months of sea service in my Seaman’s Book as a wiper, so that I can later pursue marine engineering studies and graduate as a Third Engineer.
Those 30 months are all about what you put into it. If you just do the job of the wiper, you will learn little to nothing.
Get involved, ask questions, work above your rating.
Read every machinery manual onboard. Put in the time.
Sea time and academy learning are just two different parts of the same path.
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