Anyone else work in the oil field?

[cwatt]

It can be good work, but the long hours and remote location do wear on a guy. I've had a total of five days off since Sept 23rd, and won't likely have any until mid to late Dec.

I suspect being in the army might be similar. Or anyone who works offshore.


- CW

[phreshkid]

At least the money is good, right?

[rmdashrf]

Army was similar deployed.

Good luck man, hope it at least treats your pockets well.

[mrsleeve]

It can be good work, but the long hours and remote location do wear on a guy. I've had a total of five days off since Sept 23rd, and won't likely have any until mid to late Dec.

I suspect being in the army might be similar. Or anyone who works offshore.


- CW

yup but I am more gas patch/mid-downstream side of things. I have been 127 day straight with out a day off, I have spent 13 months and few days with out seeing my house, and saw the wife for 2 weeks while my MIL had/initial recovery open heart surgery. I have been hooked up solid for 4 years, with only 2-5 weeks off at a time between 4-13 month hitches. I have taken much of this year off though I needed a break and chill out, as I have been burnt out for a while. Trying to avoid that dreaded get your ass on a plane tomorrow call till the 1st of the year or so....

All that said it keeps the bills paid, puts a little fun money in my pocket and make a comfortable living. Yes the life on the road SUCKS, the time away from family SUCKS even more, but we are in a boom and you have to make hay while the sun is shining and pack it away for the lean times, because like anything in the trades there will be times when you cant buy a trip. But like anything in life, you have pay now or pay latter, and like my grandpa always said nothing worth anything comes easy.

As too off shore I work for a large multi national that has asset's all over the world mostly in the North sea, (our R/D unit is in the UK) I have had the option to go twice, NOPE NOPE NOPE not being stuck on a fucking laybarge in the North sea or the Gulf unless there is NO other options. I hate man camp work, I am not sharing a bunk on noisy ass ship let alone in 30 foot seas off the coast of norway in october

[Ray Smoodiver]

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

[cwatt]

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

That was terrible.

[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]

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.

[dirtysix]

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

Hopefully some in 'n' outs too, right.

[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.

[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

[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?

[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)

[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

[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.