Posted on 05/09/2017 9:55:14 AM PDT by rey
He went into a dangerous job because he wanted to be able to financially support his woman.
I knew a guy back in college, who was earning his way doing diving salvage/repair. He had an upper-middle-class girlfriend who he wanted to be able to show a good time. He died at the age of 20.
You ought to “throw chain” on a drilling rig floor. Nothing more dangerous than that!
DH wrote: “You ought to “throw chain” on a drilling rig floor. Nothing more dangerous than that!”
My Dad and my Brother both worked on drilling rigs. My brother did that to work his way through college. I’m thinking though that the guys ‘shooting the wells’ with nitro in a bit more dangerous occupation.
Nah, I was Tail Gunner on a Budweiser delivery truck at KU — that was the most dangerous job of my youth.
Not according to number of people dying. They show logging as #1 and fishing industry workers as #2.
Setting chokers is the entry level job in the logging world.
When I got my first job setting chokers, in the mid 60s, it paid $3.75 an hour. Minimum wage at the time was $1.25. It took less than 20 minutes to show me the basic skills for the job. The big money in logging was in falling timber and bucking logs.
Thanks to the spotted owl and the federal ban on logging in the nationals forests of the Olympic Peninsula and the Cascade Mountains.
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