Anyone else work in the oil field?

[z31maniac]

how much money are we talking about here?

Hi there! Read sleeve's post above.

[ttrousdell]

I know a few people that i graduated with that work on the rigs and supply boats in the gulf. Most of them seem to be month on month off. Ive been working as a ship engineer since graduating. Usually most of my shifts have been 90-100 days on working 10-12 hours a day. I have equal time off for vacations and pays well which keeps me doing it over a 9-5.

[Dozyproductions]

how much money are we talking about here?

[nando]

by the end of the year I'll have worked over 500 hours of overtime. I'm fucking exhausted.. but, I'm going to keep dancing until the music stops. like sleeve says, we're in a boom right now. in 2 years it could be completely dead. 80 hours a week sounds insane, but if you're out on a rig, what else are you going to do?

I don't mind the odd trip but mine are usually short (3 days) and only a few times a year. it's almost like a vacation, lol.

[z31maniac]

Regardless of how you justify it, attach bravado/manliness to it, that's still a shitty way to earn a living.

It sucks bad enough not seeing my wife Mon-Thursday since she travels every week for work and then sometimes the odd weekend where we might see each 1-2 days over 2 weeks.

[mrsleeve]

Yikes, I don't get that, heh. Above average pay but you just "get" to work for 80 + hours a week.

Some of my friends at Boeing are doing similar escapades in OT. They literally work 7 days straight for 7-9 months, 14 hour days. And they don't make much more than me, they just spend a lot more time at work. Which I guess is fine if you like your job enough, yeah?

well it all depends on what your base rate is ;) If your base rate is 10-25 bucks an hour OT helps but your not going to do much better than 70-80k in a year.... When you start to get some responsibility or are a crew foremen is where your going to start to see the 800-1200 a day pay packages, when you go over seas and take a hitch where security is needed and other "local" hazard issues is where you can get into the 2k+ a day assuming you have the skill set to command the necessity of your presence that is

[cwatt]

Yikes, I don't get that, heh. Above average pay but you just "get" to work for 80 + hours a week.

Some of my friends at Boeing are doing similar escapades in OT. They literally work 7 days straight for 7-9 months, 14 hour days. And they don't make much more than me, they just spend a lot more time at work. Which I guess is fine if you like your job enough, yeah?

You must have a better paying job then... otherwise they will make a lot more than you. Math says so.

But yes - I'm here so I can work more, and that 'more' being OT.
FYI - I work 98h a week (14x7)

[ck_taft325is]

Yikes, I don't get that, heh. Above average pay but you just "get" to work for 80 + hours a week.

Some of my friends at Boeing are doing similar escapades in OT. They literally work 7 days straight for 7-9 months, 14 hour days. And they don't make much more than me, they just spend a lot more time at work. Which I guess is fine if you like your job enough, yeah?

[mrsleeve]

It depends how you look at things. In reality, you get paid slightly above average but because of the long days, you make your money on OT. Don't get me wrong though, there are some silly well paying jobs out here, but they don't just hand those out to everyone.

yeah you make your money on OT , I dont leave the house for less than 60 and 7. But if you have any kind of responsibility above general labor "IT" does what its told when ITS told you should have a fairly decent hourly base rate as well

[Ray Smoodiver]

yes smoo but your accommodation are a little bit more........ how shall we say............... less industrial lol and yes that was a really bad punnn well done though. BTW where are you berthed at now or are ya at home???

Yea home at the moment, just finished a 10 month refit that was supposed to be 6 weeks total with only 2 weeks on the hard... Which turned into 7 months on the hard.

I'm taking a few weeks off, and resetting the brain.

Will likely be downunder until at least February, i'll head up to the islands and do some charter work, before heading back up to the Med.

Hopefully some in 'n' outs too, right.

Sailors have a near mystical ability to find rum and loose women.

[dirtysix]

I work offshore, but not on rigs. It has its ups and downs (heh).

Hopefully some in 'n' outs too, right.

[cwatt]

At least the money is good, right?

It depends how you look at things. In reality, you get paid slightly above average but because of the long days, you make your money on OT. Don't get me wrong though, there are some silly well paying jobs out here, but they don't just hand those out to everyone.

[mrsleeve]

yes smoo but your accommodation are a little bit more........ how shall we say............... less industrial lol and yes that was a really bad punnn well done though. BTW where are you berthed at now or are ya at home???

[cwatt]

I work offshore, but not on rigs. It has its ups and downs (heh).

That was terrible.

[Ray Smoodiver]

I work offshore, but not on rigs. It has its ups and downs (heh).