Pros
When the shipping market is doing very well then there is the possibility of a special bonus which can be very good.
Cons
Before this role I was a team lead of a small team of three. I moved into this role as an assistant during COVID because i wanted to continue working from home as well as find a job in the shipping industry which is what istudied. A month after joining the company wanted me back to the office which I understand as it was their global policy but if I knew from before I wouldn't have accepted the job for such a low salary which is definitely not sutainable for London. I was promised also that I should be promoted to an operator in about months, Four years down the line and i am still an assistant, not because I am not doing my job as I technically did the whole tender for the past year but because the company does not care about promoting people. There have been people who joined after me and from what i know with much less experience that have been promoted. The only difference was that one of their parents was either director or a manager in the company. If i could leave earlier i would without hesitation.