Vector4fun
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cjs said:Anyone know where to get a job as a oil derrick/field worker for an oil company? I've heard the pay is good.
I spent a year cementing oil and gas wells for Halliburton way back when. Yeah, you can make a lot of money in the oil patch, if you don't get killed or maimed first. One of my co-workers nearly had his leg severed at the thigh. Did I mention the minimum work week for Halliburton was 60 hrs, and there were weeks I clocked over a hundred? Yup, 100-110 hours a week. Time and a half for everything over 40. Basically lived in the cab of my pump truck, slept there, ate there. Went home about 30 hrs a week to shower, sleep and change clothes and sign the checks for the bills. Then back to work. Didn't have time to spend any money, so did pretty well. But it aint much fun. And I had it good compaired to some rig hands.
Hazardous duty is running casing when the Driller is on his seventh reefer and hasn't slept in two days, and all you're wearing is a plastic hard hat and some steel-toe boots....