- If you want big money quick and a 2 week on 2 week off schedule go to the oil field, but you will never complain about a flying job again.

-The majority of the people that you will work with have been to prison once or twice a few even killed a person or 3.

- if you love the smell of jet fuel, ur in luck... you get covered head to toe in oil based mud (diesel fuel) daily and boy does that stuff burn when it gets on your nuts.

-Freezing rain, or 120 degree Texas heat you are still pulling a 16-18 hr shift.

- Your more than likely to loose a limb or at least a finger in the first six months.

- Your bathroom is taking a leak down the hole on to the BOP Stack

- Learn to swim cause you will eventually have to drain that BOP ( Blow out prevention stack) and you will be swimming in the "cellar" =12 feet of oil base mud, diesel, barite, costic, your and your co workers urion, dead rats and live snakes. You will be lucky not to get a staff infection.

- Its cheeper for the company to kill you than for you to get injured. If you call in sick your mostly likely going to be fired for a ("safety violation")


Oil Field could serve as a great attitude readjustment boot camp

PS: Watch out for the Flash floods. We had 5 guys killed in Aug- sept 2014 cause the rig was in a "flood zone"

That said the job can be fun but join at your own risk....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzY7C7Zjtuw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqLALzUft8Y
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