A paitient of my dads is going to work in the field for a year apparently, I did not talk to him, but my mom did and she has me interested in maybe giving it a try.

He would be in the Fort McMurray area apparently..

I'm expecting it to be hard work..but I am capable and willing.

What exactly is the work like and what does it entail?

I'd like to maybe work it..i hear the money is amazing.

 

I think you work for weeks straight then get a few weeks off kinda deal. Make good money, and if you find a good place to live/stay you bring good money home. I might head up to some rigs when I am done high school to make an assload of money to buy a house.

-Rick

 

Oh yeah, and yes it is hard work, but good for you, and well worth it for the money.

-Rick

 

if you plan on moving to the Fort Mac area, be prepared to shell out alot for the cost of living. a one bedroom apt will run you around $800 and up. but the money there is crazy, there are kids flipping burgers at McDicks for well over $12/hr. and in all honestly, around there, or almost anywhere in the patch is not hard work. there is some labour intensive stuff, but now safety plays it's psrt more than anything. ie: if there was a 100 pound vavle, or something that had to be moved, you wouldn't be allowed to do it by yourself, regulations say it would require 2 people. there is so much more i could tell you, but i would have to ue up alot of space.

 

yea, rumor has it there's some money to be made [img]smile.gif[/img]

 

Thinkin of the move to Alberta as well are yah?

 

Ahh yes...the rig. I just got out of high school, but my godfather and my uncle and my cousin all have worked or still work on the rig. I alsot Have a second cousin who works in Russia for 6 months at a time, and the he gets 6 months free over here in canada. Everyone I know that works at the rig makes atleast 80000$ a year, most of them make over 100000$. When you start, you got the ****ty job. This is when you get to put in an actual hard days work, I mean 12 hours of exhausting effort. After 3 or 4 years you get an easier job. My uncle got to drive from city to city moving parts and going to business meetings. He got something like 50$ an hour and he also got like .50$ a kilometer he drove, and the gas was free. He would drive around 300 km a day, so you get just 150$ for having to drive, plus you get paid the time it took to get there. I may take my next year off university and go with my godfather to the oil-rig so I can pay off the rest of my schooling, but its still probobly the best way to go for a job with no secondary education.

By the way Ricktc, what high school are you in?

 

Careful...or it will turn into a career.

I started working for the company I'm with nearly 10 years ago.

After years of buying every toy I wanted, I'm finally starting to settle down and work on retiring when I'm 40.

Dereck, your depiction of the oilfield lifestyle is very accurate.

Zach, I hope you know what you are getting into.

Adam