well' i've screwed it all up. i've got bills to pay, no job, and no paper to state my skills. No one pays a decent wage in this bullshit town, especially when you dont have a ticket - thanks boss for telling me i didnt need one 3 yrs ago - just to keep my wage down, im sure. now here iam, having to go work on an oil rig . bloody hell, i've got to go live in camp with the flocking savages. grrr.
what kind of experience do you need to work on an oil rig? is that the type of job you can do for part of the year and have the rest of the year off?
ok im bored so ill tell about stupid oil rigging. It goes in the winter from freeze up till spring thaw. So like nov. to april. then then it starts up again in the summer. In spring all the roads turn into soup so they dont even bother trying to move machinery around. busiest is the winter months, so you have to be ok with handling mud and steel and huge noise in 12h shifts in the middle of any kind of freezing shitty weather. the rig runs 24 hrs a day, so you could be night shift too. entry level jobs are basically like fence builder, ditch digger ,gofer type stuff (called the leasehand). then if you get into a course, you can possibly start at floorhand, which is spinning together sections of pipe as they go into the hole. then theres putting the rig up and taking it down, and moving from site to site. you get posted to a rig, and follow it around the country. the course im trying to get into right now is 1200$ for seven days of classroom and practice on a mock rig. you could probably get hired with no experience, but i know i'll feel that much more comfortable having taken the course. people do die on oil rigs, so why not take it. (this website i was looking at listed all the active rigs in Alberta by number and their accident histories - some of the old rigs had up to 7 deaths on them ) I think itll get me a higher starting wage too. and, they post your name and number to all the companies that are hiring, which is nice.
