Who here has worked the oil fields in Alberta?
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Dereck is right,, I used to work on them, and alot of my friends still work on them, and its funny,, they make a pile money, yet they have nothing. If you are on a normal shift of 2 weeks on and one week off,, which 99% of the rigs are,,it's too easy to spend the money you just made on your week off, cause you know your going back for another two weeks and will just make more again.
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Originally posted by DWVW:
And I don't care how good you are with money, you can fall into the trap very easily, because "being accepted" at the rigs makes your job way easier, and the easiest way to "be accepted" is to booze with the coworkers, and adopt their habits.
And I don't care how good you are with money, you can fall into the trap very easily, because "being accepted" at the rigs makes your job way easier, and the easiest way to "be accepted" is to booze with the coworkers, and adopt their habits.
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Originally posted by Audio_Rookie:
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?
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?
-Rick
Ah yes, the aspirations of a future 'rig pig' Sorry for the deragatory term but growing up in a prairie city (Lloydminster with the big **** Husky upgrader) fueled by the oil industry, that's what we called them. And 'them' were the 20-something guys making wayyyyy too much money than was good for them and they would blow as fast as spend it. Be prepared to sell your Jetta right after getting your job for a brand new $50k+ (insert domestic 4x4 truck here with every Lund and stainless steel bolt-on the local UAP/Napa store can order in for you) truck or your new buddies will make you the target of their nightly vomiting after the requisite booze-fest at the local bar. Okay so that's a pessimistic view of that life but there was just so much of it. A kid that graduated a year after me was killed on his first day on the job. If you are focused on making that job build a future for you, you can certainly do it but it definitely is a lifestyle you either need to succumb to or learn to tolerate. Good luck!
Sorry for the deragatory term but growing up in a prairie city (Lloydminster with the big **** Husky upgrader) fueled by the oil industry, that's what we called them. And 'them' were the 20-something guys making wayyyyy too much money than was good for them and they would blow as fast as spend it. Be prepared to sell your Jetta right after getting your job for a brand new $50k+ (insert domestic 4x4 truck here with every Lund and stainless steel bolt-on the local UAP/Napa store can order in for you) truck or your new buddies will make you the target of their nightly vomiting after the requisite booze-fest at the local bar. Okay so that's a pessimistic view of that life but there was just so much of it. A kid that graduated a year after me was killed on his first day on the job. If you are focused on making that job build a future for you, you can certainly do it but it definitely is a lifestyle you either need to succumb to or learn to tolerate. Good luck!
