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It's the first one, they are drilling like crazy around Garden City right now.Originally posted by JFurst View PostComment
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i went from selling auto/home insurance and into the oilfield. this was almost 8 years ago. i now make in one month more than i made in a year selling insurance. i average working about 20-23 days per month, 12 hour shifts MOST of the time. but usually 8-10 days are out of town.
i am a supervisor(motor hand) over down hole tools that are run on coil tubing. i am based out of east texas where i only do about 60% of my work. the other 40% is working in south texas. south tx is CRAZY busy right now. from what i have heard work in the barnett(dfw area) is slowing down. most of the guys at my company in that area are having to travel to south texas to work.
if i was new and wanting to get into the oilfield i would look at coil tubing or wireline. its alot less work than working on a rig and you will make just as much if not more than a rig hand. most of the coil hands start out at $15-18 hour plus a daily bonus of $100-250 depending on their position.Comment
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Not really, I've heard of someone getting chopped up in the spool on a rig and it was back to turning the bit within 24hrs. We got called out to that rig to fix some BS electrical stuff osha found in their investigation. Personally the only accident I've seen was a guy roll a hot oil rig right in front of me and die, appeared to have blown out a front tire at 70mph.Comment
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I work for a fracing company and i will say our field guys work 100 - 120 hrs a week. They make bad ass money for not having a degree, etc. but its long hard work.
As long as you are willing to work that many hours and travel quite a bit i say go for it. The industry is in high demand.See you later...Comment
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Go for it. People make career changes all the time. Sometimes the economy itself demands you either adapt or die. I can't tell you how many people I know that were working in restaurants after the dot.com crash.
I went from being a Paramedic to IT Web Design. The only limiting factor to learning a new vocation is you. Commit yourself. Dive in and learn something new. Don't look back.Comment
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My father in law works for Halliburton and they shipped him to Algeria (4 weeks on, 4 weeks off) for the last few years. He just switched to a different division and he was in the shithole parts of the US (HoustonOriginally posted by 71chevellejohn View Post
). He's in the UAE for the next couple weeks though.
He got a TON of hazard pay and had some crazy tax benefits as well (since they paid his Algerian taxes for him, it counted as both income and foreign taxes paid, so it worked out well for him).Comment
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<--- City Planner to Air Force Pilot.Comment
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me moneyGUSTAOriginally posted by Buzzo
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Like i said in my first post, the oilfield is a great place to work. I have enjoyed every day of my job, from throwing a spinning chain as a worm, to working 100ft in the air as a derrickhand, to my current position as a driller.Originally posted by TonyMCev View Post
There is a high demand for SMART able bodied men in the oilfield right now, we need all the people we can get... the only thing you need to think about is what part of the oilfield you want to be employed in...
Snubbing unit (dangerous)
Roughneck (dangerous)
Work over rig (Semi dangerous)
Cementer ( not dangerous, but gone all the time)
Frac crew ( not as dangerous, but alot of HIGH pressure equipment)
Logger (not dangerous but gone all the time)
AND there are many other third party jobs that you can look into...
I am a Roughneck. More specifically, a driller i am the man that runs the drilling rig, I havent been home in a month and a half, due to my company being so short handed, YOU have to be prepared to work long hours at times... MY regular schedule is 7 days on and 7 days off, and i clear 100k a year, and i normally work 6 months out of the year
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