Hi,

If you stay in this line your future will be in offshore construction (top side maintenance, hook up and commissioning). There is good and bad about your job. I will start with the good. This position is generally a clerk, you will be keeping track of the personal on board arranging incoming and out going crew both for the construction crew and marine crew as well as marine department equipment and other necessities like food, you will have the chance to learn how the offshore barge is managed which will allow you to be an Operation engineer. You will have a lot of free time in the day, if you use it to explore the construction activity and learn the work they do instead of playing computer games that knowledge is going to be very handy in the future. Some of the most in demand engineers started from the bottom like TA because they know almost everything as compare to the ones starting as a graduate field or operation engineer in companies like Dayang. Your advantage over them will show up after 5 years or latter when more competency is expected of you in higher profile jobs during job interview. Lots of holidays because you work on sunday.

The bad. It is the lowest position in the rank, so have to deal with the humble heart. Getting a better job is slightly harder because of your title (technical assistant not technical engineer) so careful how you write your CV.

The line of hook up maintenance is quite a bright one. Pay is alright(don't compare to drilling) with lots of employment opportunity As long as there are offshore platforms to maintain and upgrade there will be plenty of jobs. So use your free time to explore everything from marine, construction and operation side, then one day through the contacts you build and if you don't create for yourself a bad reputation you will most likely end up as a field or operation engineer. And in your senior years when more is expected you will be able to deliver better than most that couldn't go through the humiliation.