Trailers are packed into a gravel space at Lonesome Creek RV Resort near Kenedy on March 14, 2013. Photo: Tom Reel, San Antonio Express-News
Trailers are packed into a gravel space at Lonesome Creek RV Resort near Kenedy on March 14, 2013. Photo: Tom Reel, San Antonio Express-News
Amazing how some economic opportunity will bring people who are willing to work hard for a living. Why can’t liberals get this simple idea? Instead they try to STOP this sort of thing.
Hard men doing a hard job, God bless ‘em. Guys like this are who built this country.
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Reminds me of my days working in the “Off Shore” oil patch in the “Gulf” back in the 70’s. 12 on and 12 off 7 days a week. So tired that all you want to do is shower, eat and sleep. But the money was good.
“Life is lonely....” in the Texas oil patch?
Try doing oil exploration in the Sudd in southern Sudan!
Company trailers or barges (if your camp is on the White Nile) for dorms and mess halls.
Nowhere to go.
14 on and 14 off, start at 6 am.
Must be rig hands.
Service companies, at least in the 1970’s and 1980’s, are 7 days a week and get started at 4 am to get where you are going.
35 to 40 days without a day off weren’t unusual.
84 hour week was a short week. 120 even 140 hour week not unheard of.
ministry opportunity....
If I lived in Texas, ministering to all those oil workers would be an exciting ministry. I sing at a Rescue Mission in Illinois. These are the people who are open to the Gospel.