Posted on 03/21/2019 6:55:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Wyoming oil fields are going through another big time boom, and they have sent out the call for workers. The hours are long. The work is hard. The pay is huge.
According to the oil industry website Oilfield Job Shop:
Bilfinger Westcon, Inc. is hiring for the following at our Crestwood job site located in Douglas, WY: Night Shift (starting 4/1): Pipefitter Foreman: $33/hour, Pipefitter A: $30/hour, Pipefitter Helper: $25/hour, Rig Welders: $37/hour $15/hour rig rate, Riggers: $29/hour, Operator B: $31/hour, $100/day worked per diem.
Bilfinger Westcon is a growing, diverse, full-service industrial general contractor headquartered in Bismarck, North Dakota with regional offices in Deer Park, Texas and Canton, Ohio. The company also has a fabrication facility in Piqua, Ohio.
The industries we serve include oil and gas, refining, chemical, power, mining/minerals, agriculture/food, and renewable resources.
This isnt huge money anymore. Especially if having to leave family and home to work in dismal isolated dreadful misery conditions with slavedriver bosses doing gawdawful dangerous manual labor. But I suppose its better than nothing
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A strong back and a weak mind will get you far.
I wouldn’t get out of bed for that. That’s not great. The cost of living and housing and land there isn’t that cheap as to make that income seem high.
A lot of these things require a pretty decent mind.
That said, I’ve seen plenty of strong backs too.
Don’t worry, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Socialists will kill it with their utopian Red New Deal and 70+% income tax, but look on the bright side, when the Socialist pay you not to work...you can earn $33/hour sitting on your butt.. since $15/hour is child’s play...
It’s a young man’s sport, but six months, living in a camper, will send you home with enough money to buy some land, or pay down on a home.
It’s how the American Dream is realized, for many.
What do you mean by that? I’ve worked in the energy industry for 40 years through boom and bust and hardly made enough to make ends meet and I’ve fixed everything from well pumps to nuclear reactors- never made as much as Alexandria Ocazio Cortez either. That’s something right there. What a waste of time.
I know a female union welder doing exactly that. Working six month stretches in the Dakotas and Wyoming, coming home for a few weeks to her waterfront Lake Michigan home, and then loading up the $100,000 luxury camper, and off to do it again.
She never graduated high school, and makes a lot more than most of the college grads she went to school with.
Yep, I’ve known several. One now owns the farm his dad used to rent. Part of his time was doing the same work in Saudi, 6 weeks on, 2 off, for triple the wages. Means to an end...
sorry charlie.....this is good money.....its at least $60 a year minimum and for a young guy its golden.....
so not bother to work?....boy, have freepers become whiners....and we wonder why American businesses want all these illegals....
Throw out any Ivy League and west coast State U resumes in favor of e.g. Wyoming Cowboys.
Tough climate, tough work, no social life, dangerous as hell, if you got the sand to stand it all and don’t drink it or party it up. It can be a means to an end. You do the time in that area doing the work no one can tell you how work looks, you’ll know it. Money piles up if you use it wisely you won’t get rich probably, but you don’t have to bow to anybody for what you get.
Just...D@MN...
When I was roughnecking and drilling it was absolutely the coolest job I ever had. I will never forget those days.
Covered in dirt, sweat, sore as hell, and things running good. If I was a youngster I’d start over, if just for a cold beer polking fun at the guys I worked with while they made fun of me having my hat blown into the next state or something. Hard work never hurt me.
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