Posted on 04/24/2019 12:08:06 PM PDT by reaganaut1
My son-in-law hauls gasoline. Makes a ton of money. Works 6days a week, 8-10 hours a day. My other daughter works for a company that makes oilfield parts. Business is booming.
You’re assuming all these are jobs paid by the hour... There are more people sitting in offices than are out in the field and while we all work more than 40 hours a week, we don’t get overtime...
Long ago I worked on Alaska’s North Slope. Decent pay. Two weeks on/two weeks off, 12 hour shifts plus call every night. By day 10 I developed the thousand yard stare.
I was 19 and making $16.64/hr back in 1979. Of course uncle Sam and Jimmah Cahtah made sure that they took over half of that.
I had a friend who was drafted by and played for the Washington Redskins. I was making more then he was, with my OT, on his regular annual contract. He signed 3 years for $30K, $40K, and $50k.
Oh wow, yes, that’s incredible.
There was a song “Nice Work If You Can Get It” back in the 30s or 40s. Appropriate.
Your SiL earns every penny of it. I would be terrified every second I was in the truck.
your FR homepage says that you’ve been jobless for 35+ years. Is that true?
He’s a brave guy.
It also says:
Why are you looking at this page?
I’ve never worked a day in my life.. I have too much fun...
I am a operations geologists for a major operator in the Permian basin. I work 14 days on at 24/7 duty and 7 off. We sleep an hour or two at a time once or twice a day. I have 3 to 4 rigs per rotation and each on need steering commands every 500 feet of.MD. my typical days is 16 hours of at my desk time. We are not hourly but my yearly salary is in line with what this article talks, about plus bonus at 22% and 30k a year in stocks.
I’ve known guys who work like that. You earn every penny of what they pay you. Do it while you’re young!
Would love that kind of money. Too bad getting one’s resume through all the computerized filtering of applicants is basically a lottery.
In th elate 70s during the coal and oil Boom in and around Gillette, Wyoming, I took a construction crew up to build a couple of schools in Gillette.
Soon learned that the bar fights were beyond nonsensical violent and stupid and that you cound be having a late breakfast at Dennys on a Tuesday but that morning could be the end of the weeks shift for some drunk.
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