Yes, if you are new to the Industry ,you will have to gain experience working for a regular company e.i. Subsea7, Acergy… depending what country you are in !
By all means do a year and then go freelance, I have a little room in my rubbish bin at the moment, more than enough space for your CV to fit into, because that is exactly where it will go, after being passed to the boys for a laugh.
I will not have any freelance guys without at least 5 years experience, full stop, end of story.
That is just the basic requirement, before I even look at your "qualifications"…
I did say "one year minimum…. and yes better to have newbies work for 3 years. Five?? I doubt you’ll get them too often… The industry is as such where it dictates something a bit different.
I posted an ad that I found, it was a company looking for trainee’s.
Check out my post it labeled " Trainee’s check this out" or something like that. You better hurry, because I posted it several days ago and im sure other trainee’s or jumping on it.
Im not a agency or rep, im a ROV Personnel looking out for my ROV comrades. Make sure you get advice about what pay rate you should try for because we don’t want to support companies that want to low ball us.