Out here in the Midland Odessa area, west Texas, there's a bunch of oil field work going on. If you are willing to travel, or move, somebody out here is always hiring. If you want to pm me with contact info., I'll ask around a bit if you want.
Looking for advice from those in the Oil Field Business
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Oil business has been pretty good to me. 25 years. If you get a chance to get a foot in the door then do it and stick with it. Life is good.
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How dare you.
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What has wings and flies like a bat?
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Nah. Not really. Just general advice. My military career brought me in contact with that world and those guys. Lots of RR jobs arent working on the trains too. Signal maintainer, track inspector, car repair, mechanics on the crazy powerful engines.
Just throwing it out there. Its one of the few industries that is growing (oil and gas too). Pay is good. Hours can be weird but if you are up for it and have an understanding wife its not all bad.
BNSF/UP are considered pretty good. CSX not so much. Short line RR (not class 1) is a good way to get a start.
Not sidetracking your oil and gas industry thread, just throwing out another option.
If youre really up for an adventure and a crazy work/home life, go up to the North Slope in Alaska. Have a friend there who mostly builds scaffolding from what i gather.
Appreciate your willingness to work hard. Just find yourself a career and not just a job.
Ill be looking into this, the wife is up for an adventure as long as she's taken care of. She wants a ranch with garden, chickens, and goats out in these hills. Her job right now takes her all over texas and i go along with her alot lately. Everyone kept tellin me Texas was all heat and desert but its beautiful out there in the cuts man. its a nice place to live and watch your kids grow up. and also gives you room to make your own little shooting range LOL
I've been in the industry for quite a while.
Left the east Texas gas boom when it soured in 2008 and been working the Basin ever since.
Great place to work, shitty place to live.
That's why I'm out there during the week and at home in north Texas on weekends.
I know a whole lot of guys, myself included, who changed their family trees by getting into the O&G business.
Good luck and give me a shout if you end up in the Basin.
Not what I meant. I mean changing the tree financially.
Like going from renters to property owners, from worrying paycheck to paycheck to having enough to live comfortably and even put some back for retirement, investments, college for the kiddos, etc...
Divorce will happen in any industry but I don't know a whole lot of guys who have gone through it in this industry.
Those wives tend to get pretty when the stress and worry over finances is lifted.
Bring home the bacon and stay away from the vices and you're good.
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